Britain commemorates a "bittersweet" 75th Windrush anniversary

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 in 1948 has become a symbol of the post-war migration that transformed Britain and its culture. Photo: 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 June 22, 1948, became a symbol of the post-war migration that transformed Britain and its culture. The term "Windrush generation” has come to stand for hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in Britain between the late 1940s and early 1970s, especially those from former British colonies in the Caribbean.