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Darren Lewis, in Kingston, Jamaica

'My parents beat adversity - but fight goes on for the betrayed Windrush generation'

It is the Kingston port from which the famed Empire Windrush became the most high profile of the ships that set sail for England 75 years ago this week.

You can only imagine the scenario.

The frenzied excitement here – on the Victoria Pier – as young men in their late teens, donning dapper zoot suits or short-sleeved shirts and ties, joined the young women in their Sunday best, ready to heed the call to “enjoy” a new adventure on the other side of the world.

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