Trinidadian Prince Albert “Jake” Jacob, an RAF airman in WWII Britain, and his wife Mary were among the first mixed race couples in post-war England.They met when Jacob went to England during the war as part of the American forces stationed at the Burtonwood base near Mary’s home in Lancashire.Mary recalled, “When I told my father I was going to marry Jake he said, ‘If you marry that man you will never set foot in this house again.’“He was horrified that I could contemplate marrying a black man, and I soon learned that most people felt the same way. The first years of our marriage living in Birmingham were hell — I cried every day, and barely ate. No one would speak to us, we couldn’t find anywhere to live because no one would rent to a black man, and we had no money.”She told the Daily Mail, “No family came to our register office wedding in 1948... I do not regret marrying him for an instant, despite all the pain we have suffered.”Mary became a schoolteacher and ended up as a deputy head teacher. Jake worked in a factory, then for the Post Office until he retired.Jacob said, “ I feel so fortunate to have met and married Mary, but it saddens me that we could not be accepted by society. Nowadays I say to young black people: ‘You have no idea what it used to be like.’“When I arrived in the UK I was subjected to abuse every day. Once I was on a bus and a man rubbed his hands on my neck and said: ‘I wanted to see if the dirt would come off.’And back then you couldn’t work in an office — because a black man in an office with all the white girls wasn’t thought to be safe.”The couple remained married for 72 years. Their story is part of the untold history of the emergence of mixed-race marriages in Britain. ...#jakejacob#triniinterracialmarriage #triniinbritain #tthistory

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