Alexander Williams, Jamaica’s High Commissioner to the UK, today (23 July) visited the Windrush Untold Stories exhibition in Brixton’s Windrush Square.
The exhibition, which closes tomorrow, was, he said a one-stop shop for anyone wanting a crash course in the history of the Windrush Generation.
In discussion with the exhibition organiser, Ros Griffiths, he also suggested ways in which the exhibition might take the story of the Windrush Generation in Britain back to the Caribbean.
He said that, while the Jamaican embassy in London is closely following political and financial developments in fallout from the Windrush scandal, it was good to discover its human side.
Alexander Williams (right) with (l-r) Lee Lawrence, Rev Michael King and Ros Griffiths, whose portraits all appear in the exhibition 
At the African Caribbean war memorial in Windrush Square 
At the African Caribbean war memorial in Windrush Square 
Ros Griffiths tells the story of the late Clovis Salmon OBE, who lived in Brixton for the entire time he was in the UK, but sadly died at the age of 98, shortly before the exhibition went on display 
With the list of portraits and other credits for the exhibition (l-r) Ros Griffiths, Alexander Williams, Donatus Anyanwu, Lambeth council cabinet member for stronger communities, Lee Lawrence and Rev Michael King 
With the portrait of reparations activist Esther Xosei 
With journalist and lecturer Valley Fontaine 
Former BBC London reporter Evadney Campbell with her portrait and the High Commissioner 
With Marcia Rigg, the human rights campaigner whose brother Sean died at Brixton police station in 2008 after being restrained by multiple police officers while experiencing a mental health crisis 
Ros Griffiths with her own portrait 
Rev Michael King with the High Commissioner 
With Lee Lawrence at the Windrush Square memorial for Cherry Groce, his mother, whose shooting by police in 1985 caused an uprising in Brixton
The next stop for the display and its stories will be at the heart of the UK government in the Home Office’s headquarters in Westminster, where it is due to open in September.
The High Commissioner, a former Jamaican senator and president of the country’s bar association, was joined by several of the people featured in the exhibition, whose giant portraits also carry a link so that people can listen to the subjects telling their own stories.
He said he would be listening to the stories, which are available online, along with portraits at https://windrushuntoldstories.empathymuseum.com
One of the subjects of who joined the visit was Birdy Stamp, whose exploits at the Big Caribbean Lunch and elsewhere have earned he the title of “The Dancing Granny”.
She proved that she is also no mean singer as His Excellency Alexander Williams joined her in a brief burst of Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds.
