Leonard “Len” Benker Johnson was born on the 22nd of October 1902. He grew up in working class Clayton as the son of William Benker “Bill” Johnson, a Sierra Leonean merchant seaman, and Margaret Maher, his proudly Irish Mancunian Mother. He grew up in a multi-cultural childhood with fellow immigrants of Jewish, Irish, Italian, and […]
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