In a residential area of Basseterre, where huge cruise ships carrying thousands of tourists dock each day, is a building in a sad state of disrepair.
Once a busy house full of life, 17 Dorset Village, St Kitts, now lies empty.
Hidden from the road by overgrown shrubs and weeds, it will soon be knocked down.
It is here where Palmer's grandfather Sterry was born on 27 December 1953.
"This is the house my grandfather, Charles Ward, and grandmother, Emily Dore, built," Ossie Martin, one of Sterry's cousins, says outside the now crumbling building.
"At the time people used to call us rich. Dorset was a really upmarket area.
"This house had four bedrooms, a tiled bathroom, kitchen, dining room and a living room.
"I grew up here with my grandmother, grandfather and my aunts, who doted on us. Then you had all your cousins around you."
In 1955, Sterry's parents, Estelle Ward and James Palmer, took the painful decision to leave him and his older brother St Clair behind in search of a better life for their family as part of the Windrush generation.
People in the Caribbean were invited to the United Kingdom to help rebuild post-war Britain.
The government needed workers to help fill labour shortages and rebuild the economy. Caribbean countries were also struggling economically, and job vacancies in the UK offered an opportunity.
Sterry - known as Stez to family and friends - was looked after by grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins after his parents travelled to the UK by boat.
"Stez and I would play in the park across the road," adds Ossie. "We didn't have lots of toys so you made your own fun.
"We'd make our own carts, we'd stand on steel drums and roll them, and we'd use a stick to guide the rim from a bicycle wheel."
In 1960, at the age of six, Sterry travelled to England along with St Clair, Ossie and Ossie's younger brother, Errol.
"We were put on the boat to Barbados and then went on to Southampton," recalls Ossie.
Sterry's parents had settled in Moss Side, Manchester, where many other families from St Kitts and Nevis - who were also part of the Windrush generation - had set up home.
A homesick Ossie recalls longing to return to the Caribbean soon after arriving in Manchester.
"It was depressing initially," he says.
"It's not like we left St Kitts and went up in the world. After arriving in England we went down in the world.
"In St Kitts I had a tiled bathroom, I had a fridge. When I went to Moss Side, Sterry lived downstairs with his family and we lived upstairs.
"The children had to use the outside toilet and we didn't have a fridge. It felt like a comedown."
