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Ivor Gustavus Cummings was born on 10 Dec 1913 to Joanna Hurst Jones Archer, a nurse and Ishmael Cummings, a doctor from Sierra Leone. Ivor was baptised at St James Church, Lower Addiscombe Road on 22 February 1914. On the 1921 census, Ivor is listed as living with Violet Sandford & her daughter at 147 Albert Road, South Norwood. However, he remembered growing up in Addiscombe and attended Whitgift School.

Ivor was a gay civil servant who fought back against racial prejudice and violence to shape modern Britain. In 1948, he stood on Tilbury Docks to welcome the passengers of HMT Empire Windrush — the moment that came to define post-war Black British life. Ivor’s Compass introduces the remarkable life story of a remarkable man to new audiences through an immersive/interactive art installation, new writing from a diverse group of Black queer men, and the launch of an innovative, digital wellbeing journal.