augustus bernard. i was born 1928. i was born in at the time, british guyana. alford gardner, born in kingston, jamaica, 27thjanuary 1926. delisser928. i was born in at the time, british guyana. oh, gosh, it's very difficult. i have to sort of come away again in order to tell you what it was like, because it wasjust like home. how do you describe home? you know? my family was very orthodox methodist, and so i inherited that christian background with discipline and hard work. it was a big family. my siblings, of course, and the parents. - my father died early, _ in the early '50s, so i stay home with my mother to lookj after the younger ones. i don't like to remember some of it. but one thing i decided, - i wasn't going to steal to help the younger ones. i work and i work. my father sent me to learn. my father sent me to learn dress—making. when i small, i used to do, make my own clothes for myself. i did everything i was, everything a wife should do, everything. ——i did everything a boy, everything a boy should do, everything. at one time, i thought i could do anything a boy could do. idid. i didn't know that there was a life to