Bertram Wilks is a well-known member of the Bristol community. Born in Clarendon, Jamaica, in 1938, Wilks moved to the UK in 1959. He opened the Black and White Café in the St Pauls district of Bristol in 1971. 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.
