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Cyfweliad hanes llafar yn Saesneg gydag JaquelineHenry wedi'i eni yn Linstead, St. Catherine, Jamaica, ym1957. Cofnodwyd fel rhan o Brosiect Treftadaeth Windrush Cymru Cyngor Hil Cymru.

Oral history recording with Jaqueline Henry, born in Linstead, St. Catherine, Jamaica, in1957. Recorded as part of Race Council Cymru’s Windrush Cymru Heritage Project.

“My mum had a birthmark and I always used to say, I will remember my mum, because she got a birthmark…”

Jacqueline Henry was born in St Catherine, Jamaica in 1957.

“My childhood in Jamaica was fantastic, I loved the school and I loved spending time with my grandad, my grandmother and my uncle.”

“I really wanted to be a geologist, to study fossils. Even when I was over here, I used to love fossils and rocks.”

“I came to the UK December 5th 1969, to join my mum when I was 11 years old… I arrived at Gatwick… so it was right cold.”

“[It] was a shock to the system…I came straight to Cardiff… my mum was living in Ely.”

“When I first came it was an eye-opener. I was 11 going on 12, I was very optimistic and education-wise…”

“I’d never experienced racism until I came to this country, especially as a child…”

“I was my top of the class [in Jamaica]…”

“I was pushed down to lowest of the class, I was a bright child… for the first 3–4 years of my life over here, they knocked my confidence out.”

“The neighbours… the things that they done was unbelievable. I got up one morning and there was like a bucket of… I can’t even describe it… excrement out the back towards the window… my mother [had to] wash down the back…”

“I did not have that much of a problem in work really… I didn’t think I would have been over here for that length of time.”

“I think people should know the depths of their history. Study history properly that’s what I would say.”