It’s as West Indian as rice and peas and the barber shop: the slamming down of dominoes – hard – on a table as a group of elderly black men go head to head in a heated game.
“If you are West Indian you just can’t play dominoes without making a bit of noise,” says Ernest Theophile, 73, who has been playing dominoes, cards and backgammon with his friends in Maida Hill market square in north London for 12 years.
