By Guy Williams

Founded by the Windrush generation in 1948, Leeds Caribbean CC was the first West Indian cricket club in the country. It’s now celebrating the opening of a new clubhouse, costing more than £500,000 and financed by Sport England, the ECB and the club.
Shortly after the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in June 1948, Jamaican Alford Gardner, now 98 but then in his early 20s and recently demobbed from the RAF, travelled to Leeds to find a job and somewhere to live. Initially, discrimination made both tasks difficult, but as a trained engineer, Alford eventually found work an...