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Evening Standard
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Jonathan Prynn

Son launches Windrush rum inspired by father’s voyage

Clive Thompson

(Picture: Handout)

The son of West Indian immigrants who came to London on the Windrush is to launch a range of “inclusive” products under the name of the celebrated ship that brought his parents to Britain.

Clive Thompson, 62, said he was inspired to create the brand by an iconic photograph of his tailor father Archibald at Victoria station that he saw in a book about the history of the Empire Windrush passenger liner that has given its name to an entire generation.

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