Charles Sealey discusses his life history from when he first emigrated to the UK from the Caribbean.  This oral account is  for the 'We are here' exhibition held at The Vestry House Museum, London from 5th March to 1st November 2020.

We Are Here is the focal point for 9 months of activities that celebrate this important unsung generation and marks the 72nd year since the arrival of the British troopship HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948.

See 50 contemporary photographic portraits, curated alongside over 100 personal family pictures, mementos and oral testimonies, providing a peek into lives lived in the borough.

Charles Sealy - oral history

‘We Are Here’ focuses on Waltham Forest’s ‘Windrush’ residents who came to the UK from the Caribbean to create new lives in the borough from the 1950s to the 1970s.