Before Windrush: Black People in Leeds and Bradford, 1708 — 1948

well good evening ladies and gentlemen both people here in the Leeds library and it's nice to see so many people have come to an in-person meeting which I think is more sociable than Zoom although I know Zoom is convenient for lots of people and we do have far more people listening to this talk on Zoom

this evening then are here in the route as you know we weren't able to hold our meeting in September so this is the first meeting of our 2022-23 program and I welcome you both members of the Salisbury society and any visitors it's my great pleasure this evening to introduce our speaker Danny fryer who is a researcher and historian

who specializes in local bank history and the Leeds West Indian carnival which contributed items and information to numerous exhibitions in Leeds and contributed to risk a lot of research he's written for Daniel away magazine Community Highlights magazine and various newspapers including Yorkshire View Post is created two of his own exhibitions at the Leeds Central Library

and gives guided black history walks and talks on various black history subjects at the central library chapeltown library The Abbey House Museum and here this evening it's also a contributor to the upcoming book popular music in Leeds history's Heritage people and places so welcome Danny and we're looking forward great interest to your tour

foreign so we've only got about an hour together so I'm just going to get straight into the top IC of before Windrush black people living in Leeds and Bradford between the year 1708 and 1948. now the first britons were black Britain's earliest known inhabitant was cheddaman and he lived in Britain about 10 000 years ago and science has shown