The HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, on 22 June 1948. Britain was rebuilding, and the Government recruited workers from the Caribbean to cope with postwar labour shortages. More than 1,000 passengers disembarked that day, just part of the first wave of what would become known as the ‘Windrush Generation’.
The 75th anniversary has seen lots of museum and library exhibitions, alongside social and oral history in which a recent episode saw radio presenter and DJ Dev Griffin travel to Jamaica for the first time, from where his father Rodney emigrated to the UK when he was only 18.
