My name is Godfrey Henry Oliver Palmer and i was Born Injamaica in1940. Big set. Carmen esme e s m e steele. I am mrs munroe. Lacita alexander reid. 20th may 1931, in manchester, jamaica. Yeah. Piano refrain 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 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
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 fathers and grandfather
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 britain, they worked hard,
i was so nervous when i first met carmen because i ve literally grown up seeing her on television. what does it mean? the question of the windrush generation, which is my parents generation, that question of migrating from one place and all the kinds of expectations and then the actual of what happens once that move has taken place and that person s perspective on the life they ve lived here. so, those things were immediately fascinating and interesting. have you had your - portraits painted before? no, no. it s going to be | your first time? the photos on the wall has inspired me. - what family means to you. yes. you know, and it s a beautiful thing that i will try as much. as possible to touch base on the process of making the portrait. i m actually working - on my uk visa documents. i m going on them and i feel| like it s very symbolic for us. when i go back to ghana, i m going to, like, put- all the images together. i m looking forward to bringing
i was so nervous when i first met carmen because i ve literally grown up seeing her on television. what does it mean? the question of the windrush generation, which is my parents generation, that question of migrating from one place and all the kinds of expectations and then the actual of what happens once that move has taken place and that person s perspective on the life they ve lived here. so, those things were immediately fascinating and interesting. have you had your - portraits painted before? no, no. it s going to be your first time? the photos on the wall has inspired me. - what family means to you. yes. you know, and it s a beautiful thing ithat i will try as much as possiblel to touch base on the process of making the portrait. - i m actually working - on my uk visa documents. i m going on them and i feel|