JENNY MEIN DESIGNS

ford had a family and over the years he has travelled extensively with his only hindrance being the Covid pandemic.

In June last year Alford along with John Richards, a fellow passenger on HMS Windrush in 1948, unveiled the National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station in London. They were joined by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, now Prince and Princess of Wales, and four school children including Alford’s great granddaughter.

The book may be one man’s story, but it is really a story of many people from the Caribbean and beyond helping to rebuild this country after a devastating war.

The launch of Finding Home, the memoirs of Alford Gardner, takes place at Bradford Literature Festival on the June 23 at the John Stanley Bell Theatre, University of Bradford, from 4.15pm to 5.45pm.