Maybe it’s just that Australians cherish & value their heritage a little more than us Brits 🤔… an ⚓️ memorial which commemorates a ‘migrant’ ship!
Anyone here remember HMT Empire Windrush 🤷🏼♂️
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Save this #BritishHistory now!
My late wife interviewed Michael McMillan about his excellent ‘West Indian Front Room’ show at Geffrye Museum in 2008… Documenting our past is far more important & informative than reading the bigoted, toxic comments below 🙄
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If people don’t know the facts about the demise of HMT Empire Windrush in March 1954 with the loss of 4 crew #RIP they really should start asking questions 🫣
IMO there is far more circumstantial evidence to the story than you think
#Windrush
#BritishHistory
#Gatekeeping 🤔
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Amazing… but makes me wonder about the hidden, submerged narrative of other vessels that have played an important part in #BritishHistory … and that have been ignored for one reason or another.
Like HMT Empire Windrush 🤷🏼♂️
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Submerged narrative…
Out of sight
Out of mind for 72 years
#BHM
#blackhistorymonth
#windrush
#AnchorMetaphorOfHope
#AnchorSymbolOfResilience
#BritishHistory
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Searching the Eastern Mediterranean has yielded the world’s oldest shipwreck 👏
So how about looking in the Western Med for an important British shipwreck that has been ignored for 72 years!
#windrush
#justathought 🤷🏼♂️
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Why are the National Windrush Organisation & the National Windrush Museum using bastardised pix on their promotional material?
Surely ‘honouring the legacy’ should mean using the REAL photo from 1948 & one of the truly iconic images of the 20th century
AI erasing history 🤷🏼♂️
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UN Security Council currently discussing AI and digital safety
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As humanity faces a catastrophic future driven hard n fast by a handful of tech oligarchs
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Sadly the elephant in the room is that cash trumps conscience… just as it does in respect of climate change
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Magnificent @CBCNews video of @RCGS_SGRC and @WHOI deep sea expedition & 3D mapping of Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Quest’ & Robert Falcon Scott’s ‘Terra Nova’
Congrats to the entire team 🙌
Wonderfully documented 👏
youtu.be/nZe5sL6-RUU?is=cjKG… via @YouTube
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My gratitude for the events of 1948 and further enrichment of a hugely diverse UK culture, was the inspiration for #WindrushAnchor ⚓️
Sept 1956 the guy in the dark t-shirt arrived on UK shores from his home in Dennery, St Lucia
Had he not done so I’d never have met his daughter & enjoyed 23 years of absolute bliss with the most beautiful spirit that God ever put on earth
#WindrushLegacies
#WindrushAnchor ⚓️
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Sept 1956 the guy in the dark t-shirt arrived on UK shores from his home in Dennery, St Lucia
Had he not done so I’d never have met his daughter & enjoyed 23 years of absolute bliss with the most beautiful spirit that God ever put on earth
#WindrushLegacies
#WindrushAnchor ⚓️
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Something to cheer us all… Noel Coward’s "There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner" from 1952
Enjoy 🤗
youtu.be/tSA5C8mQcLQ?is=nZNs… via @YouTube
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If only people were to open a dictionary… or care to Google ‘anchor’, they might very well see the blatantly obvious connection between an ⚓️ AND #hope which has existed for over 2000 years 🙄
Britain is an island nation, so out of touch with its own historical characteristics
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#WindrushAnchor is ignored/misinformed by the media, misjudged by government & sadly misunderstood by many individuals/groups from the very community to whom it was intended as a gift
No longer part of the project, I can speak candidly but my disappointment is truly palpable 😔
Gone 9yrs 🕯️🙏🏽 my soulmate Alice who inspired an independent proposal for memorialisation of positive UK migration, delivering a message of #hope & #resilience
A project seeking to put a prominent, balanced narrative of #BritishHistory in the hands of the Black community
⚓️🤗
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Gone 9yrs 🕯️🙏🏽 my soulmate Alice who inspired an independent proposal for memorialisation of positive UK migration, delivering a message of #hope & #resilience
A project seeking to put a prominent, balanced narrative of #BritishHistory in the hands of the Black community
⚓️🤗
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Magnificent TV series presented by @DavidOlusoga since 2018 👏
Poignantly reflecting the very personal impact upon many lives while navigating social & historical events
Perhaps the astonishing, chequered narrative of this iconic ship may one day find its way onto our screens
My latest article, on the new series of A House Through Time, staring tomorrow on BBC Two at 9m. Set in the amazing, beautiful, gothic city of Edinburgh.
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other… but in looking outward together in the same direction"
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Would have been 22nd anniversary today, sadly we just made 13… miss you 🙏🏽
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Today 5 August 1936 German tourist cruiser ‘Monte Rosa’ anchored at Greenwich, on the first of 8 trips to London over two months
She now sits on the Mediterranean Sea bed and is better known as the
‘HMT Empire Windrush’
We should never forget her important historic narrative ⚓️
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“Don't you let nobody take you to some low, low level
Just keep on and keep on until you reach higher ground”
Stevie Wonder 🙌
Higher Ground (1974) youtu.be/I1_uU9eIZRo?is=5o8T… via @YouTube
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The National Windrush Monument was unveiled in 2022, funded by £1M from Theresa May’s government
I’m sure the community simply presumed that after wangling a degree of redemption, justice for those affected by her Home Office Scandal would follow
What were you all thinking 🙄
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Nice #WorldAnchorDay post on Facebook from the Nautical Archeological Society
I trust that UK museums and others across the globe will be celebrating this essential item of #maritime safety ⚓️🤗
Sat 25 Aug @RMGreenwich host their 5th celebratory ‘Caribbean Takeover Day’ which this year also falls on #WorldAnchorDay ⚓️
RMG is home to the National Windrush Museum & National Maritime Museum… perhaps opportunity to marry both through the iconic imagery of @AnchorWindrush
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I encourage EVERYONE to simply open a dictionary or thesaurus and read the entries about an ANCHOR.
There you will find a sound educational reference clearly explained.
If then, you still cannot make a #WindrushAnchor connection like @RishiSunak did in 2023,
I can’t help you ⚓️
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Great to see @helenhayes_ supporting launch of @Brockwell_Lido under public management of Active Lambeth 👏
I know my brother-in-law CJ was involved in the Lido’s administration many years ago and I’m sure he will be looking down in approval
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Sat 25 Aug @RMGreenwich host their 5th celebratory ‘Caribbean Takeover Day’ which this year also falls on #WorldAnchorDay ⚓️
RMG is home to the National Windrush Museum & National Maritime Museum… perhaps opportunity to marry both through the iconic imagery of @AnchorWindrush
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Massive shout out to my friend Laura X Carle for completing yet another fabulous workshop at @FoundlingMuseum
Wonderful creativity, inspiration and education in unity 👏
instagram.com/reel/DbI0NnKsM…
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Just heard @markbutcher72 on @SkyCricket mentioning rock-star appreciation of the game
Nice opportunity to post a link to arguably the UK’s greatest songwriter, lyricist & deity Ray Davies
Kinks ‘Cricket’ from 1973
album Preservation Act 1
youtu.be/ghM5SzCkhtg?is=Cf_n… via @YouTube
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9 MONTHS after a 6th letter to @Keir_Starmer re the #MPfilter I’m looking forward to @andyburnhamHQ as PM
Next time I contact @10DowningStreet there might be a small chance of NOT being ignored about removal of legislation that stymies public complaint
maxholloway.com/Starmer29102…
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15 July 1573 birth of Inigo Jones and surely one of England’s greatest creatives
Without Jones we would not have been gifted the outrageous architectural masterpiece of Queen’s House, Greenwich
I trust @RMGreenwich are celebrating appropriately
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Love footy, played from the age of 7 & saw Gordon Banks between the sticks two months before 1966 win. I even met Geoff Hurst in 1967
But I feel it’s best to nurture quiet humility & respect… that worked well 60yrs ago
National Pride is still something that comes before a fall
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I talk a lot about the quality of ‘anchors’ and what they symbolise
⚓️
Tonight we saw a classic example of the anchor-role in team sports… as Spain’s Rodri showed the importance of grounding his side in their #WorldCup semifinal against France 🙌
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13 July 1607: Birth of Václav (Wenceslaus) Hollar in Prague, exquisite & prodigious bohemian etcher… who in 1637 captured the Greenwich vista, being paid the princely sum of £1.50 (today’s value) for his efforts
ONLY The Queen’s House has survived this view in the last 391 yrs!
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I have no reason to doubt this post by Cornelia Parker… but regardless of validity it should at the very least prompt people to explore in a little more detail the richly rewarding intercultural development of the UK 🤔
Education is a wonderful thing
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A huge slice of England’s luck is that they’ve not actually had to play any side in the top 10 FIFA rankings on a 15 match run to the SF.
This is apparent every time the ball gets anywhere near our penalty area 🫣
We had 2 years to sort out a settled defence & failed miserably.
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#BayeuxTapestry arrives back in the UK two days before #SeaSunday 2026
The seafaring Normans anchored themselves on British shores at Pevensey Bay in 1066 ⚓️
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Although I’ll get just a few views for the post below, I will never stop talking about the #MPfilter which fundamentally denies the right of public freedom to challenge institutions
The complicity of mainstream media & political #gatekeepers is jaw dropping but unsurprising 🙄
10 years on from the 2016 Draft Public Health Service Ombudsman Bill & this foreword by Chris Skidmore… we’re no nearer the simple legislative freedom that people were promised 🙄
Why 🤷🏼♂️
@BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @SkyNews
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10 years on from the 2016 Draft Public Health Service Ombudsman Bill & this foreword by Chris Skidmore… we’re no nearer the simple legislative freedom that people were promised 🙄
Why 🤷🏼♂️
@BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @SkyNews
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The #MPfilter is an outdated parliamentary mechanism which stymies genuine public challenge to countless injustices
I suggest that unless Mainstream Media investigates it’s damaging impact, complacency & ignorance will result in many future painful consequences & scandals 🤔
For over TEN YEARS I have been denied @PHSOmbudsman access to simply challenge a ban imposed upon me by a National Museum… abetted by @DCMS @mtpennycook @10DowningStreet & @RoyalFamily
All because the #MPfilter legitimises institutional gatekeeping 👇
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For over TEN YEARS I have been denied @PHSOmbudsman access to simply challenge a ban imposed upon me by a National Museum… abetted by @DCMS @mtpennycook @10DowningStreet & @RoyalFamily
All because the #MPfilter legitimises institutional gatekeeping 👇
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Random shout out for the wonderful Romare Bearden… American creative practitioner, author and songwriter 1911-1988
#class 🙌
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romare…
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