When the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in Essex on June 22, 1948 it was carrying a crowded cargo of around 500 West Indian settlers dressed in their Sunday best. Britain is marking the 70th ...

Amid the celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the arrival of Empire Windrush from the Caribbean in 1948, much has been made of the warm welcome that once greeted those migrant men and women in ...

LONDON (AP) — Seventy-five years ago, a ship landed at Tilbury Dock near London, carrying more than 800 passengers from the Caribbean to new lives in Britain. The arrival of the Empire Windrush on ...

After the Second World War ended, Britain desperately needed workers to rebuild the country the transport system and the newly created National Health Service were especially short-handed. And so, ...

Today (June 22) marks 75 years since hundreds of Caribbeans disembarked the Empire Windrush ship in Tilbury Docks in Essex. HMT Empire Windrush docked in Britain on June 22, 1948, and marked the ...

Several events are taking place across Ipswich for Windrush Day including music on the Cornhill Communities are celebrating the contributions Caribbean migrants have made to the UK on the 77th ...

The Prince of Wales paid a visit to Alford Gardner, who is one of only two surviving passengers from the famous Empire Windrush ship in 1948 Mirror Group Newspapers Prince William is helping celebrate ...

The Royal Mint is marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival in the UK of passengers on the Empire Windrush ship with a new commemorative 50p coin. The coin’s designer, artist Valda Jackson, was born ...

People bound for Royal Ascot race meeting walk past the National Windrush Monument in Waterloo Station in London, Thursday June 22, 2023. Windrush Day is being marked on Thursday on what is the 75th ...