The Windrush Front Room Exhibition

The Windrush Front Room Exhibition

TUESDAY 4 MARCH - SUNDAY 16 MARCH 2025

Take your friends and family down memory lane.

Learn about the history of Woolwich and the African & Caribbean Front Room.
Enjoy the immense experience of this award winning Windrush Front Room Exhibition with the Glass Fish, Bluespot Gram, Jim Reeves LP, Plastic Pineapple ice bucket, home drinks bar and the Axminster carpet.

Enjoy the reading from the best-selling novel 'Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shilling, A Windrush Story' by the author and curator Tony Fairweather.

The exhibition will take place within the Visitors' Book Café at Woolwich Works.

Entry to The Windrush Front Room Exhibition is free. There's no need to book a ticket.

The exhibition is open during our normal opening hours, between Tuesday 4 March and Sunday 16 March.

Opening times

Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday: 8am - 9:30pm
Thursday: 8am - 11pm
Friday: 8am - 11pm
Saturday: 9am - 11pm
Sunday: 10am - 9:30pm

Note: our outdoor areas close when the building closes or at 9pm.

WINDRUSH FRONT ROOM EVENTS. CLICK ON PHOTO TO BOOK.

Windrush Front Room: House Party

A very special house party, hosted by the iconic Tony Fairweather. Expect DJ sets, book signings, Windrush music and moving image.

| £6

Windrush Front Room: Meet the Curator

Drop-into the Windrush Front room to meet with the curator, Tony Fairweather and he welcomes visitors of all ages into the front room, and answers all your questions.

– | Free

Windrush Front Room: Meet Authors K N Chimbiri and Juliet Coley

Meet two award-winning authors for children, K N Chimbiri and Juliet Coley as they read from their books.

| Free

Windrush Front Room: Sunday Afternoon in the Front Room

Join curator Tony Fairweather in the Windrush Front Room.

| Free

Windrush Front Room: Meet Some of the UK's Top Authors

Meet bestselling authors Ray Shell, Atabang Esin Eminue, Garfield Robinson and Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm at a Q&A and book signing.

| £5

Windrush Front Room: Tales from the Blue Spot Gram

Join curator Tony Fairweather as he reads from his bestselling novel 'Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story'.

| Free