'I did it my way': Alford Gardner on his life after boarding the Windrush

Alford Gardner was 22 when he boarded HMT Empire Windrush in Kingston, Jamaica, along with 491 other West Indians, a postwar generation that helped rebuild the UK and paved the way for others to follow.
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Seventy-five years later, he is one of the few left to tell the story. Gardner says if he could live it all again, he says he wouldn’t change a 'damn thing'.

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