The British troopship HMT Empire Windrush anchored at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 21 June 1948 carrying hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean hoping for a new life in Britain - alongside hundreds from elsewhere. Who were they?
June 2020: To mark this year's Windrush Day, on 22 June, we have retrieved this article from our archives.
The former passenger liner's journey up the Thames on that misty June day is now regarded as the symbolic starting point of a wave of Caribbean migration between 1948 and 1971 known as the "Windrush generation".
Many were enticed to cross the Atlantic by job opportunities amid the UK's post-war labour shortage.