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Description: | Gloria Bailey came to London to work for London Transport.
There was a labour shortage caused partly by the loss of men who had died fighting in the Second World War. But also, the pay and status of transport jobs had fallen since the 1930s, and some people were no longer prepared to jobs they saw as menial.
People from across the British Empire - Gloria's father, for example - had already helped in the First and Second World Wars. Now they were being asked to help rebuild the country.
Life for recruits from the West Indies could be hard. Here Mrs Bailey remembers what it was like for her family. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Work | Temporal: | 1950-1959 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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