Legacies: London Transport’s Caribbean workforce

In the 1950s and 60s, London Transport, struggling to recruit staff locally, turned to the Caribbean, and in doing so changed not just London’s transport, but London itself.
A new exhibition at the London Transport Museum looks at how public transport ran recruitment campaigns both in London and the Caribbean to fill a labour shortage that threatened to bring the Capital’s buses and trains to a shuddering halt.It’s a mix of an exhibition, ranging from the early recruitment camp