75 years ago, the early Windrush Generation arrivals began a legacy that would help revitalise a nation depleted by years of war.
The Windrush Generation pioneers in Britain are shown in a new exhibition called Journeys to Hope, which falls in the 75th year since the ship’s arrival
Disembarking 802 people who had bought cheap tickets for passage from the West Indies, the ship’s arrival followed a call from the British government for Commonwealth citizens to plug the workforce gaps, and their achievements would include a vital roleThose shown wearing their best going-away gear in the black-and-white images include passengers on the Windrush as well as the liner SS Begona, which operated across the Atlantic.
She is pictured five months before the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, which placed restrictions on Commonwealth passport holders hoping to live in the UK, came into force. The Windrush brought one of the first large groups of West Indians to the UK, a cohort described as ‘citizens of the British Empire coming to the mother country with good intent’ by a Pathé reporter at the time.
Jamaican Leslie Wight speaks to a Ministry of Labour official about his qualifications at a Labour Exchange 120ft below ground in Clapham, London ‘These people have just survived the longest, hardest journey in their lives: the journey to another identity,’ the professor says. Victims found themselves wrongly denied access to healthcare and housing, with some being detained and deported despite being longstanding UK residents.
Patrick Vernon OBE, convenor of the Windrush 75 network, has called for the milestone to be celebrated at a national level on a par with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. ‘Everyone had worked hard and saved money to dress up, with the majority of the generation coming via air through Heathrow. They had big expectations and five-year plans to come to Britain to make money and go home until many people had families, settled and stayed on.’
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