Queen’s Staith, York
When I was a child in the 1970s, we sometimes went to Queen’s Staith, particularly if we’d just got some fish and chips from mum’s cousin’s shop on Bishophill. Rowntree’s barges used to be unloaded there. I found some Nigerian …
Month: July 2020
Peter and Madge Guest
Ten Pound Poms is the term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe British citizens who emigrated to those countries after the Second World War. The Government of Australia initiated the ‘Assisted Passage Migration Scheme’ in 1945. People only had to pay £10 and the government paid the …