On the bronze monument in Waterloo Station, showing a couple and their daughter, standing atop suitcases filled with their belongings, and no doubt their hopes and dreams, it reads: “You called... and we came.”
It was here, exactly 75 years ago, that the first of the Windrush generation arrived in London, after disembarking the ship from Jamaica in Tilbury Docks in Essex.
And in the coming months and years many thousands of men, women and children from the Caribbean would also pass this way to new lives in the capital and beyond after answering Britain’s call to help rebuild the country after World War II.
