by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | News
The guardian newspaper ran a story in October 2008 that Sir Trevor McDonald as becoming the “first black British newsreader” in 1973, and Moira Stuart as becoming “Britain’s first black woman news presenter” in 1981, and was...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | Events, News
London’s first post-war black firefighter Frank Bailey. Frank Arthur Bailey came to London from Guyana in 1953 and as a political activist he joined West Indian Standing Conference. He later attended a TUC conference and heard from a Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | Events, News
One of the first black firefighters to serve with London Fire Brigade has been commemorated with a plaque unveiled at his former station. George Arthur Roberts BEM (1890-1970) served at New Cross Fire Station for the duration of the Second World War and was awarded a...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | Events, News
Sislin Fay Allen was an inspiration for many when she became the Metropolitan Police’s first black female police officer, based at Croydon in the late 1960s. In 1968, Sislin Fay Allen, a nurse at Croydon’s Queens Hospital, became Britain’s first Black...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 6, 2020 | News
This is Anne on the left during one of our Ambassador Training Days Anne contributes a lot of her experience and time to supporting JUST Lincolnshire, as a volunteer Ambassador. This is how it is for Anne. We are all guilty sometimes of not looking beyond what we...
