*BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL* HMT Empire Windrush

How did an ex-German ship that once ferried Norwegian Jews to Nazi concentration camps become a byword for a generation of black immigrants to the UK? This is the remarkable history of HMT Empire Windrush.
Photographs taken from Wikipedia and the BBC website.
Attributions:
Photograph of Empire Windrush by Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Newspaper advert by Kingston Gleaner (The Daily Gleaner) - newspaperarchive.com/kingston..., Fair use, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
Engine room by Aboard ship photographer - www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/ak/in..., Copyrighted free use, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Image of burning ship by Royal Air Force Photographer - This photograph A 32891 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

[@ThamesShips]

Very interesting video. There is a "Walkway of Memories" at Tilbury on one of the passenger bridges that they would have walked along when they disembarked. The panes of glass depict pictures and memories of those passengers that arrived and there is always a big event held on 22nd June of each year to commemorate Windrush Day. There is also a plaque at the nearby Tilbury Town rail station.

[@SteamboatWilley]

Thanks for watching.