How nice and kind and helpful they were and happy, never cross! They were an enormous influence in my life when an impressionable teenager. There was a large following of young people at the church. Cliff and Monica’s church was one of the first to welcome the ‘Windrush’ people from Jamaica. Being a Sunday School teacher, I got to know many of the young Jamaicans and I’m still in touch with some of them today. The Caribbeans were some of the most sincere Christians I had ever met. They were deeply spiritual, with a respect for each other and God, steeped in the bible and always singing. They had been brought up in the British tradition and seemed to fit into British life much more easily than the African people who later joined the church. I babysat for Cliff and Monica until they moved away to East Ham. There they built up a church that was failing until it also was overflowing with people.
May Craig