A postcard from 1951 depicting the furniture of the lounge onboard the Empire Windrush.

Source: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/nostalgia/gallery/75-years-windrush-came-britain-27139436

As a 2nd Generation member of the Windrush Community I was honoured to be at the House of Lords to hear Baroness Floella Benjamin delivered an impassioned recital of her journey and arrival in the U.K. aboard the Empire Windrush.

Source: https://www.libdemvoice.org/floella-benjamin-marks-windrush-day-with-event-in-parliament-73406.html

Seventy-five years ago, 492 passengers from the Caribbean disembarked from the HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks to begin new lives in the UK.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65984430?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

The MV Empire Windrush ship was one of the vessels that brought workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean islands to help fill UK labour shortages after World War II.

Source: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-under-fire-over-retreat-windrush-scandal-reforms-1711990

This year also marks the 75th anniversary of the HMT Empire Windrush arriving in Britain in 1948, marking the start of the Windrush generation of people who helped rebuild Britain after the Second World War.

Source: https://www.getreading.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/black-history-month-events-reading-27888949