Windrush Arrives From Jamaica

Waving passengers crowd the decks of HMT Empire Windrush as it docks at Tilbury in Essex on its arrival from Australia via Jamaica, 21st June 1948. 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. Photo by Jones/Daily Herald Archive/National Science & Media Museum/SSPL via Getty Images)