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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Windrush 20240704



beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the windrush generation. you look beautiful. how are you? it is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the empire windrush at tilbury injune 1948, only a few months before i was born. and those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. many served with distinction in the british armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a better future for themselves and their families. when they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would ....

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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Windrush 20240704



beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the windrush generation. you look beautiful. how are you? it is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the empire windrush at tilbury injune 1948, only a few months before i was born. and those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. many served with distinction in the british armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a better future for themselves and their families. when they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would ....

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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Windrush 20240704



can you see me in here? yeah. oh, yeah. laughter. ruining anothercamera. my name is godfrey henry oliver palmer, and i was born injamaica in1940. big set. carmen esmee e s m e steele. i am mrs munroe. lacita alexander reid. 20th may 1931, in manchester, jamaica. yeah. piano refrain plays. emotive strings play. plaintive woodwind plays. chirpy piano tune plays. history is thankfully and finally beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the windrush generation. you look beautiful. how are you? it is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the empire windrush at tilbury injune i9li8, only a few months before i was born. and those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. many served with distinction in the british armed forces during the second world war, just as their f ....

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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Windrush 20240704



laughter. my name is godfrey henry oliver palmer, and i was born injamaica in1940. big set. carmen esmee e s m e steele. i am mrs munroe. lacita alexander reid. 20th may 1931, in manchester, jamaica. yeah. piano refrain plays. emotive strings play. plaintive woodwind plays. chirpy piano tune plays. history is thankfully and finally beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the windrush generation. you look beautiful. how are you? it is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the empire windrush at tilbury injune i9li8, only a few months before i was born. and those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. many served with distinction in the british armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. once in bri ....

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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Windrush 20240704



azmi, e 5 me. alexander reid, born in may, 1931, azmi, e 5 me. alexander reid, | born in may, 1931, manchester, jamaica. history is thankfully beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the windrush generation. it is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the empire windrush, only a few months before i was born and those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that day, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. many served with distinction in the british armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. once in britain they worked hard, offering the skills to rebuild the country during peacetime. and they sought opportunities to forge a better future for themselves and their families. when they arrived on our shores, with little more than what they were able to carr ....

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