Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff’s opinion piece tells us far less than half of the Windrush story (The problem with the Windrush line, 20 February). There is no problem with the Windrush line. The mayor of London is on the right track by so naming it. Brinkhurst-Cuff knows that more than 1,027 passengers arrived at Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948 on the Empire Windrush, but may not know that they included diverse groups of people: African-West Indians (often called Afro-Caribbean), Indo-West Indians, Sino-West Indians, Euro-West Indians, Africans and others.
I have used the word West Indians because the second largest numbers of passengers were from Bermuda. The ship had made only one return journey to the West Indies since being launched in 1930. Brinkhurst-Cuff focuses only on those passengers of African heritage.
