BBCNEWS The Travel Show July 6, 2024
we start this week in brixton, a part of south london that has become the go to full caribbean british culture from food to fashion and art. but it hasn't always been like this. after the second world war, britain was decimated, and so thousands of people from commonwealth countries were invited here to fulfil labour shortages. i'm here to fulfil labour shortages. i'm here in windrush square which was named after one of the first ships to bring almost a thousand people from the west indies to britain. the boat became a symbol for a generation of people who settled here from 1948 and ...