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RMMEKDBE–Windrush ship, HMT Empire Windrush, originally MV Monte Rosa, passenger liner and cruise ship
RMG3C5RW–MV Empire Windrush, best known for the arrival of West Indian immigrants at Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948. Date: circa 1948
RMG4CKC3–PA NEWS PHOTO 28/3/54. THE 14,651 TON BRITISH TROOPSHIP, THE 'EMPIRE WINDRUSH', PICTURED HERE IN DOCK AT SOUTHAMPTON.
RMJ4Y0KM–Empire Windrush packed with West Indian immigrants on arrival at the Port of Tilbury on the River Thames on 22 June 1948. This event is often cited as the start of the postwar immigration boom that was to change British society forever. The British Nationality Act 1948 gave British citizenship to all people living in Commonwealth countries with full rights of entry and settlement in Britain.
RM2CWBBF7–Empire Windrush brought one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, carrying 1,027 passengers and two stowaways on a voyage from Jamaica to London in 1948. 802 of these passengers gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean: of these, 693 intended to settle in the United Kingdom.
RM2C3TNHT–London, UK, 22 June 2020: To mark the 72nd anniversary of the day the Empire Windrush docked, carrying 1,027 passengers. Online events were held at 10.27am but Windrush Square in Brixton as largely deserted. The gates of the Black Cultural Archives were decked with flags and Empire Windrush banners. Anna Watson/Alamy
RME0MAGB–Mar. 31, 1954 - More Empire Windrush Survivors Arrive.: Serviceman and families - survivors of the ill-fated ''Empire Windrush'' landed at Blasckbushe this afternoon from Gibralter. Photo shows Bombardier Michael Boyd and his wife Dorothy with their daughter - fourteen months old Penny on arrival at Blackbushe this afternoon. They come from Billingshurst, Sussex.
RMJJH54P–An Empire Windrush commemorative flag and plaque at the London Cruise Terminal, Tilbury Docks, Tilbury, Essex, England, UK
RM2CB3MK8–Men, women and children from the Caribbean arrive at Southampton in 1962 at the invitation of the British Government to help with rebuilding Britain after World War II. These people became the Windrush Generation due to their treatment by the British Home Office under a hostile environment policy where employers and other organisations were required to ask for visas.
RMW120R6–Liverpool, UK. 29th June, 2019. Local people write messages and put hand prints on a drawing of HMT Empire Windrush which will go on display in Liverpool Museum whilst celebrating Liverpool's Windrush generation at a community family fun day event in Faulkner Square Park, Toxteth, Liverpool with performances from Carroll Thompson and local poet Levi Tafari. Credit: ken biggs/Alamy Live News
RMP4P9CM–Bristol, UK. 23rd June 2018. Empire Windrush Mural seen on the side of a Building Campbell Street, St Paul's. Its a space that celebrates the remarkable contribution of African and Caribbean men and women to this country. Robert Timoney/Alamy/Live/News
RMMDX6KX–London, UK. 20th April, 2018. Solidarity Rally with the Windrush generation in Brixton’s Windrush Square. Credit: Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News
RMP4YHE8–London UK 23rd June 2018 People play Dominoes in windrush square on 70th anniversary of the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush and a new era of Caribbean’s settling in post-war Britain. Credit: Thabo Jaiyesimi/Alamy Live News
RMP4G7RT–London, UK. 22nd June, 2018. Guests, including families of the Windrush generation, leave Westminster Abbey following a thanksgiving service to mark 70 years since the arrival of Caribbean migrants on the Empire Windrush ship to the UK. Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
RM2JJYAWR–500 Jamaicans Arrive At Tilbury -- The Jamaicans first look at Britain. When the 14,000 - ton ex-troopship Empire Windrush drew alongside the landing - stage at Tilbury this morning, her decks were crowded with nearly 500 Jamaicans who have come to Britain to seek work they cannot find in their own country. Some ex. RAF-men are rejoining the service, some are becoming miners and some have jobs to go to. June 22, 1948.
RM2D4DR7E–The African War Memorial at Windrush Square on the 16th September 2020 in Brixton in the United Kingdom. Photo by Sam Mellish
RMMP1Y7R–Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, UK. 20 May, 2018. Final preparations to floral displays and show gardens in hot sunshine a day before the 2018 RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens to the world’s media, and two days before the public event on 22 May. Photo: Detail from The Windrush Garden in The Great Pavilion designed by Birmingham City Council & Baroness Floella Benjamin. Credit: Malcolm Park/Alamy Live News.
RM2M3KACM–Jamaican men on board the Empire Windrush who have come to Britain to seek work; some of the men, dressed smartly in jackets and ties, are reading a newspaper. June 1948
RMP4FXJ4–File photo dated 28/03/54 of the 14,651 ton British troopship, The 'Empire Windrush'. Theresa May, who has faced criticism, is expected to attend a Westminster Abbey service on Friday to mark the moment hundreds of Caribbean migrants departed the Empire Windrush ship in Tilbury Docks on June 22 1948.
RMJ4Y0KN–Empire Windrush packed with West Indian immigrants on arrival at the Port of Tilbury on the River Thames on 22 June 1948. This event is often cited as the start of the postwar immigration boom that was to change British society forever. The British Nationality Act 1948 gave British citizenship to all people living in Commonwealth countries with full rights of entry and settlement in Britain.
RM2CWBBFF–Windrush Square, in the centre of Brixton, south London, was renamed to recognise the important contribution of the African Caribbean community to the area, marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush. It was the Windrush that in 1948 brought to the United Kingdom from Jamaica the first large group of post-war West Indian migrants
RM2C3TNHJ–London, UK, 22 June 2020: To mark the 72nd anniversary of the day the Empire Windrush docked, carrying 1,027 passengers. Online events were held at 10.27am but Windrush Square in Brixton as largely deserted. The gates of the Black Cultural Archives were decked with flags and Empire Windrush banners. Anna Watson/Alamy
RME0M9BG–Mar. 03, 1954 - Survivors Of The ''Empire Windrush'' Disaster Arrive. A Cup Of Tea - At Blackbushe. Photo shows Two boys with a
RMJJH52J–An Empire Windrush commemorative flag and plaque at the London Cruise Terminal at Tilbury, Essex, England, U.K.
RMFB5KFE–London, UK, 10 January 2016, Clapham South deep-level air-raid to be restored and opened to the public. The London deep-level shelters are eight deep-level air-raid shelters that were built under London Underground stations during World War II. In 1948 the Clapham South shelter was used to house the first immigrants from the West Indies who had arrived on the MV Empire Windrush. Credit: JOHNNY ARMSTEAD/Alamy Live News
RM2CB3MKN–Men, women and children from the Caribbean arrive at Southampton in 1962 at the invitation of the British Government to help with rebuilding Britain after World War II. These people became the Windrush Generation due to their treatment by the British Home Office under a hostile environment policy where employers and other organisations were required to ask for visas.
RM2R8RG41–London, UK. 22 June, 2023. A woman in period clothes stands in front of a poster highlighting the contribution of immigrants from the Caribbean to the National Health Service at the start of the Windrush Procession marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival at the Port of Tilbury of the Empire Windrush. Credit: Ron Fassbender/Alamy Live News
RMP4NYFG–London, UK. 22nd June 2018. Temporary Art Installation commemorating 492 people who arrived at Tilbury Dock on the ship Empire Windrush in 1948. Art work by Roy Williams and Gijs Van Bon. Part of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival GDIF. Names of all 492 individuals are transcribed in photoluminescent powder onto the pavement in Cutty Sark Gardens to pay tribute them. Credit: Ann O’Toole/Alamy Live News
RM2E5BH81–l-r: Neil Reidman (Bernie), Marcus Powell (Dennis), Victor Romero-Evans (Ferdy), Chris Tummings (Lennie) in THE BIG LIFE at the Apollo Theatre, London W1 23/05/2005 a Theatre Royal, Stratford East E15 production written by Paul Sirett music by Paul Joseph design: Jenny Tiramani lighting: Gerry Jenkinson choreographer: Jason Pennycooke director: Clint Dyer
RM2R8PJ02–London, UK. 22nd June 2023. Windrush 75: Procession. A replica of HMT Windrush Empire ship leaves Herne Place as part of procession celebrations towards Brixton's Windrush Square. The procession is part of the celebrations of the Windrush migrant generation who would go on to shape modern Britain. Credit: Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News
RM2R856D4–MV Empire Windrush Port of Tilbury 22nd June Windrush Foundation message franked on envelope
RMG0KYW5–young jamaican boy sitting on fruit boxes full of oranges,SS Empire Windrush generation 1948
RM2JJYAYW–Looking For Work -- The immigrating Jamaicans landing to go to the special coaches which were taking those without friends to London to spend their first ***** in the ***** shelters at Clapham. The emigration in reverse has brought nearly 500 Jamaicans to England. They arrived early this morning aboard the liner Empire Windrush, and hope to find work in England - some will rejoin the RAF, some will work as miners, many are ***** technicians, they all hope for the work here they cannot find in their own country. June 22, 1948.
RM2D4DRTN–The African War Memorial at Windrush Square on the 16th September 2020 in Brixton in the United Kingdom. Photo by Sam Mellish
RMMP1Y26–Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, UK. 20 May, 2018. Final preparations to floral displays and show gardens in hot sunshine a day before the 2018 RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens to the world’s media, and two days before the public event on 22 May. Photo: Detail from The Windrush Garden designed by Birmingham City Council & Baroness Floella Benjamin. Credit: Malcolm Park/Alamy Live News.
RM2M3KAEY–The Empire Windrush sails up the English Channel towards London's Tilbury Docks, carrying 400 Jamaicans who have come to England in search of a new life. 1948
RMJ4Y0KC–Empire Windrush packed with West Indian immigrants on arrival at the Port of Tilbury on the River Thames on 22 June 1948. This event is often cited as the start of the postwar immigration boom that was to change British society forever. The British Nationality Act 1948 gave British citizenship to all people living in Commonwealth countries with full rights of entry and settlement in Britain.
RM2CWBBKK–Windrush Square, in the centre of Brixton, south London, was renamed to recognise the important contribution of the African Caribbean community to the area, marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush. It was the Windrush that in 1948 brought to the United Kingdom from Jamaica the first large group of post-war West Indian migrants
RM2C3TNHB–London, UK, 22 June 2020: To mark the 72nd anniversary of the day the Empire Windrush docked, carrying 1,027 passengers. Online events were held at 10.27am but Windrush Square in Brixton as largely deserted. The gates of the Black Cultural Archives were decked with flags and Empire Windrush banners. Anna Watson/Alamy
RME0M9BJ–Mar. 03, 1954 - Survivors of The ''Empire Windrush'' Disaster Arrive.. Walking From the Aircraft At Blackbushe. Keystone Photo Shows:- The scene at Blackbushe this afternoon as the first party to land walked from their aircraft to the Customs Shed.. They are the first arrivals - survivors of the Empire Windrush disaster - and they flew from Gibraltar.
RM2HHTR9Y–Troops line the promenade deck of the Empire Windrush as she pulls away from the Mouth of the Thames on her long trip to the Middle East. The 14,000 ton transport now, run by the New Zealand Shipping Company was before the second world war, used for cruises in pre-war Germany, and then as a German troopship and as a mothership to German submarines, before being captured by the British and taken as a war prize. June 1947 P015023
RMMRDBK9–Birmingham City Council’s Windrush exhibit in the Great Pavilion, RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018
RM2CB3MKG–Men, women and children from the Caribbean arrive at Southampton in 1962 at the invitation of the British Government to help with rebuilding Britain after World War II. These people became the Windrush Generation due to their treatment by the British Home Office under a hostile environment policy where employers and other organisations were required to ask for visas.
RM2R8RGKP–London, UK. 22 June, 2023. Windrush Procession through Brixton to Windrush Square marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of immigrants from the Caribbean at Tilbury aboard the Empire Windrush. The celebration was described by many as 'bittersweet' in the wake of a scandal which saw many arrivals and their descendants wrongly threatened with deportation or detention by the Home Office. Credit: Ron Fassbender/Alamy Live News
RMP4NYFE–London, UK. 22nd June 2018. Temporary Art Installation commemorating 492 people who arrived at Tilbury Dock on the ship Empire Windrush in 1948. Art work by Roy Williams and Gijs Van Bon. Part of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival GDIF. Names of all 492 individuals are transcribed in photoluminescent powder onto the pavement in Cutty Sark Gardens to pay tribute them. Credit: Ann O’Toole/Alamy Live News
RMB92XB9–A black worker, part of the 'Windrush generation', working on a moccasin in a shoe factory, Leicester, c. 1959
RM2R8YEDJ–London, UK. 22nd June 2023. Windrush 75: Procession. A replica of HMT Windrush Empire ship leaves Herne Place as part of procession celebrations towards Brixton's Windrush Square. The procession is part of the celebrations of the Windrush migrant generation who would go on to shape modern Britain. Credit: Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News
RMP4YHFT–London UK 23rd June 2018 People play Dominoes in windrush square on 70th anniversary of the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush and a new era of Caribbean’s settling in post-war Britain. Credit: Thabo Jaiyesimi/Alamy Live News
RM2G4M1R6–22/06/2021 Gravesend UK To celebrate and commemorate the arrival of the Windrush Generation on the SS Empire Windrush, and their contribution to the r
RM2R9GR94–London, UK. 25th June, 2023. People seen gathering at Windrush Square during a celebration to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush in Britain from the Caribbean. The Windrush Generation is mostly Afro-Caribbean people who arrived between 1948 and the early 1970s in the first great wave of black immigrants in the UK. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
RM2R8WJJG–London, UK. Children take part in s special parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of the HMT Empire Windrush arriving at Tilbury Docks, Essex.
RM2R9KE5B–The Bristol Reggae Orchestra featuring the Windrush Choir on the Pyramid Stage in the week that marks 75 years since the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush - Sunday at the 2023 Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Glastonbury.
RM2H6DCKD–Tilbury Riverside Station and floating landing stage, now the London International Cruise Terminal, Essex, 2018. Completed in 1924 the SS Empire Windrush docked here in 1948, since 1995 it has been open for leisure cruise use.
RMPFFPNP–File photo 22/06/1948 of Jamaican immigrants being welcomed by RAF officials from the Colonial Office after the ex-troopship HMT Empire Windrush landed them at Tilbury. Home Secretary Sajid Javid has apologised to 18 members of the Windrush generation after a review found they may have been wrongfully removed or detained.
RM2R9GRF9–London, UK. 25th June, 2023. People seen gathering at Windrush Square during a celebration to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush in Britain from the Caribbean. The Windrush Generation is mostly Afro-Caribbean people who arrived between 1948 and the early 1970s in the first great wave of black immigrants in the UK. (Photo by Thabo Jaiyesimi/SOPA Images/Sipa USA) Credit: Sipa USA/Alamy Live News
RM2CWBBKG–Windrush Square, in the centre of Brixton, south London, was renamed to recognise the important contribution of the African Caribbean community to the area, marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush. It was the Windrush that in 1948 brought to the United Kingdom from Jamaica the first large group of post-war West Indian migrants
RM2C3TNHF–London, UK, 22 June 2020: To mark the 72nd anniversary of the day the Empire Windrush docked, carrying 1,027 passengers. Online events were held at 10.27am but Windrush Square in Brixton as largely deserted. The gates of the Black Cultural Archives were decked with flags and Empire Windrush banners. Anna Watson/Alamy
RME0M9BH–Mar. 03, 1954 - SURVIVORS OF THE ''EMPIRE WINDRUSH'' ARRIVE.. WALKING TO THE CUSTOMS SHED.. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS:- A party of troops escorted by a member of the airport staff - arrive at Blackbushe this evening - from Gibraltar.. They are seen on their way to the Customs shed - and are survivors of the ''Empire Windrush'' disaster.
RM2RN03J1–London, UK. 28th Aug, 2023. The colorful crowd is dancing, singing and walking on the parade of the Notting Hill Carnival in London. The Notting Hill Carnival is one of the biggest street festivals in the world. It started in 1966 but originated with the Caribbean Carnival organised in 1959 with the immigrant community from Trinidad and Tobago. This year the Notting Hill Carnival marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the sound systems and Mas bands. Also it marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the passengers of the Empire Windrush to the UK. (Credit Image: © Kr
RMP4G7K9–London, UK. 22nd June, 2018. Guests, including families of the Windrush generation, leave Westminster Abbey following a thanksgiving service to mark 70 years since the arrival of Caribbean migrants on the Empire Windrush ship to the UK. Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
RMP4NXGF–London, UK. 22nd June 2018. Baroness Scotland arrives Westminster Abbey to attend a Service of Thanksgiving on the 70th Anniversary of the landing of the Empire Windrush MV on 22 June 1948 at Tilbury Docks with 492 Caribbean passengers. Credit: Dinendra Haria/Alamy Live News
RM2R8RENT–London, UK. 22 June, 2023. Preparations for the Windrush Procession through Brixton to Windrush Square marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of immigrants from the Caribbean at Tilbury aboard the Empire Windrush. The celebration was described by many as 'bittersweet' in the wake of a scandal which saw many arrivals and their descendants wrongly threatened with deportation or detention by the Home Office. Credit: Ron Fassbender/Alamy Live News
RMP4NYFD–London, UK. 22nd June 2018. Temporary Art Installation commemorating 492 people who arrived at Tilbury Dock on the ship Empire Windrush in 1948. Art work by Roy Williams and Gijs Van Bon. Part of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival GDIF. Names of all 492 individuals are transcribed in photoluminescent powder onto the pavement in Cutty Sark Gardens to pay tribute them. Credit: Ann O’Toole/Alamy Live News
RM2JJYB02–Journey's End - It's journey's end for nearly 500 Jamaicans who arrived at Tilbury in the S.S. 'Empire Windrush'. Here wave excitedly - for them Britain is the land of opportunity. June 22, 1948. (Photo by Mirror Features).
RM2R8YE3M–London, UK. 22nd June 2023. Windrush 75: Procession. A replica of HMT Windrush Empire ship leaves Herne Place as part of procession celebrations towards Brixton's Windrush Square. The procession is part of the celebrations of the Windrush migrant generation who would go on to shape modern Britain. Credit: Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News
RMP4YHF8–London UK 23rd June 2018 People play Dominoes in windrush square on 70th anniversary of the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush and a new era of Caribbean’s settling in post-war Britain. Credit: Thabo Jaiyesimi/Alamy Live News
RM2G4M1RC–22/06/2021 Gravesend UK To celebrate and commemorate the arrival of the Windrush Generation on the SS Empire Windrush, and their contribution to the r
RM2R8K8G0–London, UK. 21st June, 2023. A tribute to the Windrush Generation marking 75 years after the first docking at Tilbury Dock of an immigrant ship, HMT Empire Windrush is seen at the Ritzy cinema in Brixton. The Windrush Generation are mostly Afro-Caribbean people who arrived between 1948 and the early 1970s in the first great wave of black immigrants in the UK Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
RM2D4DRPE–The African War Memorial at Windrush Square on the 16th September 2020 in Brixton in the United Kingdom. Photo by Sam Mellish
RM2R9KE5R–The Bristol Reggae Orchestra featuring the Windrush Choir on the Pyramid Stage in the week that marks 75 years since the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush - Sunday at the 2023 Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Glastonbury.
RMPAJCDC–Families of the Windrush generation and politicians attend at Westminster Abbey a Service of Thanksgiving on the 70th Anniversary of the landing of the Empire Windrush MV on 22 June 1948 at Tilbury Docks with 492 Caribbean passengers. Featuring: Guest Where: London, United Kingdom When: 22 Jun 2018 Credit: Dinendra Haria/WENN
RMP49DFA–EMBARGOED TO 0001 FRIDAY JUNE 22 File photo 22/06/48 of Jamaican immigrants welcomed by RAF officials from the Colonial Office after the ex-troopship HMT 'Empire Windrush' landed them at Tilbury. Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the generation's beginning when about 500 Caribbeans stepped off the Empire Windrush in Tilbury Docks, Essex, to join the effort to rebuild post-war Britain.
RM2R8K8FK–London, UK. 21st June, 2023. A tribute to the Windrush Generation marking 75 years after the first docking at Tilbury Dock of an immigrant ship, HMT Empire Windrush is seen at the Ritzy cinema in Brixton. The Windrush Generation are mostly Afro-Caribbean people who arrived between 1948 and the early 1970s in the first great wave of black immigrants in the UK (Photo by Thabo Jaiyesimi/SOPA Images/Sipa USA) Credit: Sipa USA/Alamy Live News
RM2CWBBKN–Windrush Square, in the centre of Brixton, south London, was renamed to recognise the important contribution of the African Caribbean community to the area, marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush. It was the Windrush that in 1948 brought to the United Kingdom from Jamaica the first large group of post-war West Indian migrants
RM2R8RWJ0–London, UK. 23rd June, 2023. A procession through Brixton, along Railton Road to Windrush Square, marked the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush docking at Tilbury. One of the banners carried called for reparations. Credit: Anna Watson/Alamy Live News
RME0M9WC–Mar. 03, 1954 - British vessel reported burned out in the Mediterranean. Keystone Photo Shows: View of the British vessel Empire Windrush which is reported to have been burned out in the Mediterranean. All aboard have been taken to the nearest port Algiers about thirty miles away.
RM2RN03MM–London, UK. 28th Aug, 2023. A dancer walks on stilts during the parade of the Notting Hill Carnival in London. The Notting Hill Carnival is one of the biggest street festivals in the world. It started in 1966 but originated with the Caribbean Carnival organised in 1959 with the immigrant community from Trinidad and Tobago. This year the Notting Hill Carnival marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the sound systems and Mas bands. Also it marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the passengers of the Empire Windrush to the UK. (Credit Image: © Krisztian Elek/SOPA Imag
RMP4G7B6–London, UK. 22nd June, 2018. Guests, including families of the Windrush generation, leave Westminster Abbey following a thanksgiving service to mark 70 years since the arrival of Caribbean migrants on the Empire Windrush ship to the UK. Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
RMP4NXGH–London, UK. 22nd June 2018. Baroness Scotland arrives Westminster Abbey to attend a Service of Thanksgiving on the 70th Anniversary of the landing of the Empire Windrush MV on 22 June 1948 at Tilbury Docks with 492 Caribbean passengers. Credit: Dinendra Haria/Alamy Live News
RM2R8RGWF–London, UK. 22 June, 2023. Windrush Procession through Brixton to Windrush Square marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of immigrants from the Caribbean at Tilbury aboard the Empire Windrush. The celebration, while colourful and joyous, was described by many as 'bittersweet' in the wake of a scandal which saw many arrivals and their descendants wrongly threatened with deportation or detention by the Home Office. Credit: Ron Fassbender/Alamy Live News
RMP4NYF9–London, UK. 22nd June 2018. Temporary Art Installation commemorating 492 people who arrived at Tilbury Dock on the ship Empire Windrush in 1948. Art work by Roy Williams and Gijs Van Bon. Part of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival GDIF. Names of all 492 individuals are transcribed in photoluminescent powder onto the pavement in Cutty Sark Gardens to pay tribute them. Credit: Ann O’Toole/Alamy Live News
RM2JJYAY3–'Immigrants' To Britain -- 'They wanted wings'-A Royal Air Force recruiting officer speaks to some of the Jamaicans who wish to join the R.A.F., on board the Empire Windrush, at Tilbury, to-day (Tuesday). Here from Jamaica in a mass emigration-in-reverse operation are 492 Jamaicans seeking work in Britain. They were welcomed by officials from the Colonial Office, this morning (Tuesday), when the Ex-troopship Empire Windrush landed them at Tilbury Docks. June 22, 1948. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
RM2R8YE5D–London, UK. 22nd June 2023. Windrush 75: Procession. A replica of HMT Windrush Empire ship leaves Herne Place as part of procession celebrations towards Brixton's Windrush Square. The procession is part of the celebrations of the Windrush migrant generation who would go on to shape modern Britain. Credit: Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News
RMP4YHFN–London UK 23rd June 2018 People play Dominoes in windrush square on 70th anniversary of the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush and a new era of Caribbean’s settling in post-war Britain. Credit: Thabo Jaiyesimi/Alamy Live News
RM2G4M1R7–22/06/2021 Gravesend UK To celebrate and commemorate the arrival of the Windrush Generation on the SS Empire Windrush, and their contribution to the r
RM2R8K8FG–London, UK. 21st June, 2023. A tribute to the Windrush Generation marking 75 years after the first docking at Tilbury Dock of an immigrant ship, HMT Empire Windrush is seen at the Ritzy cinema in Brixton. The Windrush Generation are mostly Afro-Caribbean people who arrived between 1948 and the early 1970s in the first great wave of black immigrants in the UK Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
RM2D4DNYD–The African War Memorial at Windrush Square on the 16th September 2020 in Brixton in the United Kingdom. Photo by Sam Mellish
RM2R9KE58–The Bristol Reggae Orchestra featuring the Windrush Choir on the Pyramid Stage in the week that marks 75 years since the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush - Sunday at the 2023 Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Glastonbury.
RMPAJCD6–Families of the Windrush generation and politicians attend at Westminster Abbey a Service of Thanksgiving on the 70th Anniversary of the landing of the Empire Windrush MV on 22 June 1948 at Tilbury Docks with 492 Caribbean passengers. Featuring: Guest Where: London, United Kingdom When: 22 Jun 2018 Credit: Dinendra Haria/WENN
RM2MGNWNB–File photo dated 22/06/48 of Jamaican immigrants welcomed by RAF officials from the Colonial Office after the ex-troopship HMT 'Empire Windrush' landed them at Tilbury. The Home Secretary has confirmed that the UK Government is rowing back on commitments made following the discovery of the Windrush scandal. In a written statement in the House of Commons, Ms Braverman said she would not be establishing a migrants' commissioner - ditching a recommendation made following a scathing review into how the scandal unfolded at the Home Office. Issue date: Thursday January 26, 2023.