Download or read book Before Windrush written by ASHER. HOYLES HOYLES (MARTIN.) and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Indians have been coming to Britain for over 300 years, so the arrival of around 500 Caribbean passengers on the Empire Windrush in 1948 was not new. This book records twenty-eight early West Indian immigrants, such as Norman Manley, Learie Constantine, Una Marson and C.L.R. James, but also less well-known figures like the model Fanny Eaton, nurse Annie Brewster, footballer Andrew Watson and airman Billy Strachan. Their stories are interspersed with Asher's passionate poems.