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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Courtney Pochin

'I hide my true self most of the time but on Windrush Day, I can be unashamedly ethnic'

It's been 75 years since HMT Empire Windrush arrived in Britain on June 22, 1948, with almost 500 passengers from the Caribbean on board.

But it wasn't the only ship that made the remarkable journey and brought people from the Caribbean to the UK to help with post-War labour shortages and to rebuild its economy.

In 1958, Catherine Ross travelled with her family from St Kitts on the SS Montserrat and she's lived in the UK ever since, going on to start her own family here.

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