Davis, Vee
2013 "Davis, Vee", 2013, HistoryTalk Velma Vee Davis was born and brought up in Trinidad. She arrived in Notting Hill in 1957, the year before the race riots, and became a Rachman tenant in Powis Square. She rebuffed an attempt by Michael de Freitas (aka Michael X) to be her pimp, and wo...
| Institution: | TUC - Trade Union Congress Library |
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| Language: | English |
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London
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/55183442-A935-408E-B6E0-D07BC09FAF26 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/7827BC64-7070-4E69-9325-46CE771DED97 |
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"Davis, Vee", 2013, HistoryTalk
Velma Vee Davis was born and brought up in Trinidad. She arrived in Notting Hill in 1957, the year before the race riots, and became a Rachman tenant in Powis Square. She rebuffed an attempt by Michael de Freitas (aka Michael X) to be her pimp, and worked at Osram light-bulb factory in Hammersmith, scything leather in Shepherds Bush, and as a nurse in London, Canada and America. Recently she has started a new career as a model/actress, appearing in Vogue magazine, an advert with Billy Connolly, a Harry Potter film, Love Actually, and Alicia Keys Girl On Fire video. Vee has also run a stall at Notting Hill Carnival for many years and worked as a chef for Richard Branson at the Virgin Manor studios in Oxfordshire.
In this clip she talks about the racism she was subjected to in her first job at Osrams in Hammersmith in the later 1950s.
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