Alford Gardner has been a gambler all his long life. The 97-year-old has taken a risk, whether in cards, in love – or in his future.
And so it was in 1948 when he paid £28 and stepped on board the HMT Empire Windrush, bound for England.
The 22-year-old from Kingston, Jamaica, embarked on the three-week trip with brother Gladstone and hundreds of other immigrants from various Caribbean countries, but mostly Jamaica.
