Windrush pioneer Alford Gardner dies aged 98

Windrush pioneer Alford Gardner dies aged 98

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Alford Gardner, one of the last remaining Windrush passengers who once said he “didn’t expect to be a part of history,” has died. He was 98.

Gardner, born in Jamaica, became a pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain.

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