East London Afro-Caribbean child and mother in playground 1952

East London Afro-Caribbean child and mother in playground 1952East London Afro Caribbean child and mother in playground. The years between 1948 and 1962 saw the migration to Britain of several thousand Caribbean people. They were attracted by jobs in the health service, transport and catering industries. Most of them were men who were not joined by their wives and families until they had established themselves. So a Caribbean mother and child in London would have been a relatively unusual sight at this date.

In 1867 the London terminus of the Midland Railway

the loss was felt in the community

and for writing about them in the most magisterial prose

Also featured are some of the many shops

Chromolithograph

particularly with the cropped hairstyles of both the girls and boys

before removal to the vaults beneath the warehouses

Charing Cross

Borrowing from the mods

The chaotic rush to catch the last post at the General Post Office in St Martin's-le-Grand became such an event in Victorian London that people came to watch

Publisher: Collins

Fairfoot Road in the North East