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Description: | This picture was taken at the Baker Street canteen staff training centre. This purpose-built centre was opened in 1949. On average, 1,200 staff were trained there each year.
The picture shows instructor Mrs Bradford, who is kneeling, giving a lesson in oven-cleaning to the four trainees standing around her. Three of these women are of West Indian descent. When the photo was taken in 1968, L.T. employed hundreds of staff from the West Indies. There had been a policy of direct recruitment in the West Indies since 1956, when L.T. opened a recruiting office in Barbados. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Work | Temporal: | 10 Jul 1968 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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