Cherry Hartley arrived in Bristol in 1960 and took up work on the buses after the Bristol bus boycott.
By Cheryl Dennis & Jasmine Ketibuah-FoleyCherry Hartley arrived in the city in 1960 travelling from the Caribbean to answer the call to work after the war., which overturned a ban on black and Asian people working for the Bristol Omnibus Company.She was joined by five generations of her family, including great, great, great grandchildren, as she celebrated her birthday at the Malcolm X centre in St Pauls on Saturday.
Mrs Hartley worked as a conductor on the Bristol buses from 1969 to 1974, after the boycotts led to the Race Relations Act of 1965."When they reached their destination there was swearing and they gave me hell," she said.Mrs Hartley said she is "proud" to have gotten to where she is today She then went on to work as a theatre nurse assistant at the Homeopathic hospital in Bristol after 1974.
Mrs Hartley's children had followed her from Jamaica to the UK almost a year after she arrived in 1960. But her husband in Jamaica, Manuel Alderman Hartley, died from a poisoning and never made it to the UK.Mrs Hartley said she has always enjoyed making her own clothes and items for friends and familyShe even made a special outfit for the late"We were very good friends and I was with her all the time. I make people clothes and I dress them when they're gone," she said.
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