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What was it really like for the Windrush generation?

22 June 2023

5:52 PM

22 June 2023

5:52 PM

This article is not about me. It’s about a woman in her late eighties called Ethel who goes to my local church; she came to this country in the Windrush era, which began 75 years ago today when 500 passengers arrived at Tilbury in Essex on 22 June, 1948. But this paragraph is about me.

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