The people from the SS Windrush were West Indians who came to England in 1948 to have a better life and came to get jobs.
cos they wanted to
lots of people lived on the ship windrush called Indian sailers{jascars} Indian nannies {ayahs} the windrush was the first slave ship to bring blacks from the Caribbean to England. It started the immigration into England thus increasing the black population of England from quite literally a very few people to a huge amount.
the river windrush is about 4 miles long!
HMS Windrush was a British frigate which was transferred to the Free French Navy in 1944 who renamed her Decouverte.
Those who arrived on the Empire Windrush in 1948 had been housed in Clapham South Deep Air Raid Shelter, before being dispersed across the country to areas in which their labour was needed.
There were around 492 passengers on the HMT Empire Windrush ship that arrived in Britain in June 1948 from Jamaica, marking the beginning of large-scale migration from the Caribbean to the UK.
John Agard met a 13 year old boy, who was the youngest boy on the first trip on the Windrush ship. He got inspired, and then wrote the poem about the adventures trip on the Windrush.
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HMS Windrush is a ship which was built in Scotland in 1943. It was one of the few WWII ships which still survive to this present day.
The Windrush was the name of the ship that brought the first group of organised immigrants from the West indies to Great Britain.
The SS Empire Windrush was a ship which was used by a lot of migrants from the Caribbean when they were going to England in the late 1940s.