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Session 4: Legacies

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Photograph montage of nine images arranged around a central text that reads "London is our home now! It is Saturday afternoon, and grey old London is relaxing after a week of toil. Through her crowded districts move the sons and daughters of the West Indies, as they are doing in many other parts of Britain, discovering a new way of living. What do they really think of it? These pictures taken for CARIBBEAN CHALLENGE, in Brixton, by Maurice Ambler, lift the lid on life in London's 'Caribbean Quarter'." Image 1 (top left) A group of Black men standing in the street next to traffic lights are waiting to cross the road. Caption reads "What you doing this evening? Let's go some place and enjoy ourselves." Image 2 (top central) Two Black men dressed in bus driver's uniforms stand on the edge of the street. Behind them men and women walk along the street. Caption reads "This bus system is a hell of an improvement - here buses really run on time." Image 3 (top right) A portrait image of a smartly dressed Black man. He wears a trilby hat which is placed to the side of his head, a suit jacket with a pocket handkerchief, and a white shirt with a bow tie. Caption reads "I feel like I want to go home... want some sun and a sea bath. But maybe I'll stay a little longer and save some more money." Image 4 (bottom right) Two Black men wearing suits walking down the street. Caption reads "You have to hurry to keep warm here... And man, what a heap of clothes!" Image 5 (bottom centre) A young Black boy wearing a cap stares into the camera. Behind him is a pram containing a Black baby wearing a bonnet. A Black man wearing a suit stands next to the pram with his back to the camera on the edge of the street. The street has a car driving past and white woman crosses the road. Caption reads "Baby minding? Not really my line!" Image 6 (bottom centre) A Black woman with a handkerchief tied around her head is being served at a market stall by a white man. He holds a bag open in front of a counter laden with eggs and meat. There is a weighing scale in the background. Caption reads "Sorry madam, we don't sell saltfish. Try some nice bacon and eggs? She learns to shop the Brixton way..." Image 7 (bottom left) A street lined each side with impressive terraced homes. In the foreground are steps leading up the front door of a house, a child stands in the small front garden leaning on a low wall staring into the street. A woman walks on the path and there are cars parked in the road. Caption reads "London makes a person feel so small. It's a good thing there are so many of us in this street." Mr Turner's daughter looks at Somerleyton, Road Brixton. Image 8 (centre left) A Black woman attends to the stove and a Black man stands up reading a newspaper in a cramped domestic interior. A Black child sits at the dining table at the front of the image and a large wardrobe is against the wall. Caption reads "We're glad to have a place to live, though it's a lot of rent. And we're even learning to do our cooking indoors!" say Mr and Mrs Turner. Image 9 (centre) A Black man walks down a street wearing a trilby hat, jacket, trousers and smart shoes. He is carrying shopping in a bag.