Margaret Eastham I dont know why anyone would think London straight after the war was a paradise with streets of gold. It was a shell of a city and that was why the call went out to people to come and help rebuild it. Anyone who arrived with preconceived notions of how wonderful it was were in for a big shock!
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Rosie Seymour-HowellRosie and 169 others joined Vintage Jamaica within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! I was educated in a Church of England school in the 1950s - 1960s, and we were told about the wonders of England and how the streets were paved with gold. In 1962 my parent took me to England for 6 weeks to visit relatives, and on my coach trip fro the...See More
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Trevor Burrowes Rosie Seymour-Howell Marcus Garvey said the world is run on bluff, and there was immense bluff coming out of Britain during their 300 year tenure in Jamaica. The writer is understandable in believing in the superhuman character of the white colonial and industrial worlds. Given that we bought into their bluff, there is little that we couldn't be made to beieve about their greatness.
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Rosie Seymour-HowellRosie and 169 others joined Vintage Jamaica within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! Trevor Burrowes My experiences of life in England is that some of them still believe in their superiority and greatness! Thankfully that seems to be dying out with the passing of the older generations. Since leaving the island, and having the time to r...See More
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Trevor Burrowes Yes. There were extremely heroic and visionary Britains. The principal/founsder of my school--Knox--was one. But I believe they were in the minority among the colonials. It seems now that they were looking to evolve the human race, but limited both internally and externally. Oddly enough, I aspire to continue their still very incomplete, excessively Eurocentric efforts. 
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Dore TateDore and 2 others manage the membership, moderators, settings, and posts for Vintage Jamaica. some were good folks but many knew how to hand out oppression, cruelty, and etc. to this day- evidence Windrush and the treatment of Jamaican immigrants
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Margaret Eastham My father was a colonial officer. My godfathers were his colonel in the African Rifles and President Nyerere of Tanzania! Everyone got along famously. Upon independence in Tanzania my father was invited to stay on and eventually came to Jamaica. Mind you it helped that he was a Cambridge graduate and the Usain Bolt of his day, holding the 110 and 220 yard world records!
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Trevor Burrowes Margaret Eastham Very interesting story. Thanks much for sharing. Seeing the links between colonialism on the African continent and colonialism in Jamaica provides the most useful means of understanding our common Africa identity. And it's contradictory to Jamaicans' programming to separate ourselves from our African roots. How crazy is that!? (SEE EDIT)
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