Bertram Wilks

Bertram Wilks
Born	1938 Clarendon, Jamaica
Home town	St Paul's, Bristol

Bertram Wilks is a well-known member of the Bristol community. Born in Clarendon, Jamaica, in 1938, Wilks moved to the U.K in 1959, where he opened the Black and White Café in the St Paul's district of Bristol in 1971. Wilks is the father of prominent singer-songwriter and producer Emmanuel Abebsa (born Stephen Emmanuel Wilks). The Guardian dubbed the cafe "Britain's most dangerous hard drug den", with the cafe frequently subjected to raids by the police. The Cafe eventually closed for good in 2004. Wilks has been featured in the books Policing Notting Hill: Fifty Years of Turbulence, by Tony Moore, and Uprising! The Police, the People and the Riots in Britain's Cities by Martin Kettle and Lucy Hodges.

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