Jake Jacob: 'You were treated as a nonentity'
A man who came to the UK from Trinidad during World War Two to join the RAF said post-war Britain was not always the easiest place to be black.
Jake Jacob, 97, helped repair aircraft and met his future wife Mary while learning a new trade following the war.
However, when it came to the wedding, her family refused to attend as he was black.
Seventy four years on, the couple are still together at their home in Knowle, in the West Midlands and Jacob is now her carer.
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