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There have been a few important milestones in my parenting journey so far: first words, first steps, first meals cooked together. But few have been more rewarding than first time singing along to Victory Test Match by Lord Beginner, or first youtube video of cricketing highlights watched together (it was Mahela Jayawardene. Of course.) I haven’t quite introduced him to actual Test cricket yet, though, and judging by England’s performance in the first two days of the India series, I shou...

This year’s Notting Hill Carnival coincided with the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the passenger ship, the Empire Windrush, at Tilbury Docks in Essex on the lower Thames, where

RAF veteran Alford Gardner is one of only two surviving passengers from the original arrival of the Empire Windrush 75 years ago. At 97, and a great-great-grandfather, he looks back on a fascinating life well-lived.

For the 44 Guyanese on board, the muddy brown water may have been a consoling memory of home. For the much larger cohort of Jamaicans, numbering more than 500 as the Empire Windrush arrived on June 22, 1948, the sight of Tilbury Docks was likely to be a startling realisation that a new life, markedly different to the old, awaited. The vibrant seascape of the Caribbean must have felt a long way away.

Now in their 80s and 90s, having faced down racism and neglect, musicians of Caribbean heritage are still centre stage in the adopted country where they’ve enriched music in so many ways

For the 44 Guyanese on board, the muddy brown water may have been a consoling memory of home. For the much larger cohort of Jamaicans, numbering more than 500 as the Empire Windrush arrived on June 22, 1948, the sight of Tilbury Docks was likely to be a startling realisation that a new life, markedly different to the old, awaited. The vibrant seascape of the Caribbean must have felt a long way away.

Alford Gardner, 97, recalls his arrival in Britain 75 years ago, where the ‘damn cold’ was the only thing that bothered him

The passengers were workers who came here to find a better life, who responded to the post-WWII call of the mother country, and who deserve to be celebrated for all of their achievements

It's the 75th anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush docking in Tilbury - and there are some special events to mark the occasion

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