What’s known as the Windrush generation celebrated 75 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush carrying almost 500 people from the Caribbean to the UK.
They set sail on May 24 and disembarked at Tilbury Docks, Essex on June 22, 1948, part of the next generation of Black settlement in the UK. They brought learning, culture and music transforming the face of Black Britain, and Britain as a whole.
Out of the 490 plus people on the ship coming to fill job shortages following the end of WWII were the Stephens brothers, Delroy, 29, Leslie, 23 and Owen, 21 arriving to a new life, adventure, experience and fortune. They joined their brothers on arrival who were already settled in Liverpool, the eldest Ken, born 1917 a welder at Liverpool docks and Roy, born 1930 who was in the RAF, as a band member performing for the troops.
