ABSTRACT
In addition to the several thousands of West Africans, West Indians, Arabs, Indians, Chinese, etc., who, as seamen, have made permanent or temporary homes in the ports, other coloured “immigrants” into Great Britain comprise several hundreds of university students, a number of professional people, doctors and lawyers from various “coloured” countries of the Empire; numbers of men and women, mostly from the West Indies, in various branches of the entertainment industry; and others fulfilling private or miscellaneous rôles in a variety of occupations from wardens of hostels to racecourse touts. During the Second World War, the total was substantially increased by the arrival of over one thousand technical and skilled workers from the Colonies to work mainly in British ordnance and aircraft factories. In addition, several hundreds of foresters from British Honduras worked at camps in Scotland and northern England.
