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Radio Manchester,2 mins

Windrush Stories

The People

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Alford Gardner is 92 years old and lives in Leeds. He made his life in the city after trying out Manchester and Lancashire. In Leeds he founded the country's first Caribbean Cricket Club, and shares his memories of travelling to England first as a RAF volunteer in World War 2 and then aboard the WIndrush with BBC reporter Karen Gabay in this interview

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