help. Eventually, they made it to their Aunt's house and manage to pop it off so they legged it home and pretended it definitely wasn't them that the neighbours were talking about; 2 young girls and a plant pot wandering the neighbourhood!
Whenever I have heard about Gogo's education, the 3 things she talks about are: how they learnt everything out of a textbook, failure to do so would get you caned and that she has not forgotten word of it and was able to recite it when I couldn't sleep as a child – it's thrilling!
HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU LEFT SCHOOL?
G - 14, I had to stay home and look after my mothers kids.
Y - That's every different for how it is for me
G - It is very different now, you've got everything at your finger tips. You've got a room to yourself, you've got a washing machine...
Y- You love washing machines...
G - I have to love the washing machine because I know when I had to live on the 3rd floor , when I first came to England, you'd wash your clothes, hang them out and the frost and ting would get them, oh lord. That's life, that's life...
DO YOU THINK THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE FOR WOMEN FROM WHEN YOU WERE GROWING UP?
G - Men had this advantage; if you go to buy a house, when the women had the money, they had to put it a mans hand, for the man to buy the house. Then the man had to buy it... while now it's men and women.
When Gogo lived in Barbados, her and her sister sang semi-professionally. If there's one thing I know about Gogo is that she is constantly singing and she has an incredible voice. So, after she moved to England and got married, someone from BBC contacted her to sing professionally for them. Gogo was over the moon, she was finally going to get to live the dream she had somehow held onto since she was a child. However, her husband (being the man he was) felt threatened by her opportunity for success and refused to let her take the offer. It never happened and that was that.
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB?
G - Nursing (laughs), that was a joke!
(We crack up)
G -That was a joke, I can't stand blood!
Y - How long did that last for?
G - 9 months
Y - I thought you were going to say nine days
G - ...before I came to England, I did tailoring.
When I was in primary school, Gogo came in with my mum to talk to my class about when, were and why she
moved to England. I felt like I ruled the school, rolling in with 3 generations of Weekes'. This was a good day. Once everyone had got their heads that there was not television when she was growing up, then it became a learning curve for us because we were getting a real life account from one of the (according The National Archives)' over half a million people left their homes in the West Indies to live in Britain. These people changed the face of modern Britain. They were all British citizens and, although they had never lived in Britain before, they had the right to enter, work and settle here if they wanted to.'