Windrush – And an Unpleasant Smell in the Air
Much has been printed and broadcast recently about the plight of many West Indian immigrants who entered Britain legally between 1948 and 1971, as children, on their parent’s passports. They have now been dubbed the ‘Windrush Generation’ after the first ship to arrive in Britain carrying West Indian immigrants, the SS Empire Windrush. We are led to believe that the arrival of these children was never documented and that as a result of that lack…