TfL recognises Windrush generation with Overground line name

TfL recognises Windrush generation with Overground line name

The Windrush line starts at Highbury and Islington and goes through the East End and Docklands before crossing the Thames and branching to Clapham Junction and West Croydon. It is one of six separate routes... Read more »
Lambeth: Exploring the Windrush Generation

Lambeth: Exploring the Windrush Generation

The photo-story explores how the generations which followed the Windrush Generation are living their lives in the UK today and aims to invite conversations around the different ways of passing down their... Read more »
Windrush 75th anniversary is ‘diamond jubilee for Britain’, say campaigners | Commonwealth immigration

Windrush 75th anniversary is ‘diamond jubilee for Britain’, say campaigners | Commonwealth immigration

This 12 months’s seventy fifth anniversary of the Windrush, the ship that introduced a whole lot of immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK, must be a “diamond jubilee for contemporary, numerous... Read more »
Remembering the Windrush Generation – South London News

Remembering the Windrush Generation – South London News

Black Cultural Archives (BCA) has announced its new exhibition called HOME: Remembering the Windrush Generation, which will launch on Windrush Day, June 22. The exhibition is at BCA’s home 1 Windrush Square... Read more »
Lenny Henry to make playwright debut with Windrush drama | Theatre

Lenny Henry to make playwright debut with Windrush drama | Theatre

Lenny Henry is to make his debut as a playwright with a drama about the injustice of the Windrush scandal. Henry will also star in the one-man show, August in England, which... Read more »
‘I grew yam on my veranda’: inside London’s little-known Windrush gardens | Gardens

‘I grew yam on my veranda’: inside London’s little-known Windrush gardens | Gardens

From yams to chocho to ackee, a new exhibition is shining a light on south London’s Caribbean gardens, created by the Windrush generation who moved to Britain after the second world war.... Read more »
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Windrush victim calls for compensation scheme to ‘be taken out of the hands of the Home Office’ after just 5% receive payment in 4 years

A Windrush victim who was denied compensation has said the scheme “should be taken out of the hands of the Home Office” after a critical report revealed how just 5 per cent... Read more »
Breadfruit Sculpture in East London to Honor Windrush Generation

Sculpture in East London to Honor Windrush Generation

Authorities in London have installed the first permanent public monument in honor of the Windrush Generation in Hackney, East London. The monument is the work of Veronica Ryan, and it is the... Read more »
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Jamaican Sculptor Basil Watson to Design UK’s National Windrush Monument in London

Renowned Jamaican sculptor and painter, Basil Watson has been chosen to design the United Kingdom’s National Windrush Monument, which will stand at London Waterloo station. He was selected from a group of... Read more »
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Artist Basil Watson to design Windrush monument in London | Commonwealth immigration

The internationally renowned artist Basil Watson has been chosen to design a permanent national Windrush monument that will be unveiled in Waterloo next year, despite criticism of its location in London. The... Read more »