Other people just wanted to see England, which they’d heard so much about. They all got on a ship, Empire Windrush, which left the Caribbean to travel thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean.

On 22 June the UK marks Windrush Day, celebrating the arrival of the Empire Windrush in Britain. In 1948, hundreds of people from the Caribbean boarded the ship and travelled to Tilbury Docks in ...

Nick Booth, the trust's collections and learning director, said: "Our main purpose is to collect, preserve and interpret ...

Windrush Day was named for the Empire Windrush, a ship that brought hundreds of Caribbean immigrants to the U.K. in June 1948 to help fill a labor shortage following World War II. Until the early ...

HMT Empire Windrush became a symbol of a wider mass-migration movement. People in the Caribbean were invited to the UK to help rebuild post-war Britain. There were 1,027 people on board and more ...

The Prince of Wales paid a visit to Alford Gardner, who is one of only two surviving passengers from the famous Empire Windrush ship in 1948 Mirror Group Newspapers Prince William is helping ...

plus money-saving tips with our free twice-daily newsletter Sign up The Empire Windrush, a cruise ship turned troop carrier, was on its way from Australia to England via the West Indies.

A baby less than two months old and two women aged 80 were among those travelling on the Empire Windrush. Michael Murphy was just six weeks old when the ship arrived at Tilbury in Essex on June 21 ...

A shipwreck hunter searching for the lost anchor of the HMT Empire Windrush said he wants to “highlight the story of pioneers” who helped create a multicultural Britain. US-born David Mearns, 66, is ...

A shipwreck hunter searching for the lost anchor of the HMT Empire Windrush said he wants to “highlight the story of pioneers” who helped create a multicultural Britain. US-born David Mearns ...