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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.
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.
I have a very personal connection, here.