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Norman Mitchell MBE has celebrated his 100th birthday
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A Harlesden great-grandfather and prolific community worker has celebrated his 100th birthday.
Norman Mitchell MBE saw in his centenary with a letter from Queen Elizabeth on January 27.
The divorced father-of-six, who has 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, founded the West Indian Senior Citizen Organisation (WISCO) in 1980 in a bid to help the Windrush Generation in the area who had become old, frail and isolated.
He arrived from Jamaica in 1955 to work as a glass quality-control inspector.
His first home in London was in Forest Hill, where he lived in cramped conditions, sharing a house with 15 Caribbean migrants.
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