Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: EPOQUE LTD.
Event Date: 1961-10-15
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007659

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, typed on label: WHILE THE DOOR IS OPEN. [underlined] 15.10.61. / A foggy day in London. Platform 14 / Waterloo station. And whatever the talk / in high places, Britain is still drawing / in her children. / Nine hundred and eighty smiles flash / all the warmth of the Caribbean sunshine. / Suddenly the gloomy old station could / be in faraway Jamaica. The time is 3.33pm. / Almost three-quarters of the immigrants / are met by those who came before. / There are now 400,000 coloured people in / Britain – about half being West Indians. / Photo Shows: Loading up for a new life. / asa acp x 31 (A); stamped beneath label: EPOQUE / Limited / 12-15 [illeg.] Street, / LONDON, E.C.4. / LUDGATE CIRCUS 9593; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / EPOQUE LTD. / from BLACK STAR

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON / TRANSPORTATION AUTO
Retouching: N