Post card from Nairobi 1963

I came to England 50 years ago, in April 1963, after the worst winter British people had experienced since the records began.




I and my sister with our relatives in Nairobi

The above photo was taken in Nairobi, few months before I, my two sisters and my mother were to land at Heathrow Airport. My father made his way to England first in 1960 and settled in Coventry, got a job, saved enough money to send for my three brothers who were all older and in need of a job too. After 2 years or so came our turn , my two sisters and my mother. My mother moved her young family from Mombasa to Nairobi to stay with our relatives who owned a high rise building and we were given a space to sleep, cook and eat underneath the staircase on the top floor of the building. The  freedom to run around on the top floor and also view the city life from the top is still with me!

 On boarding the plane, I remember asking the air  hostess, beautiful white European lady, to open the window for me as I was getting too hot, I have never been on a aeroplane before!!