The weather was bad, the food was crap and yes there was racism, but this was a great generation…

This year is the 50th anniversary of the passenger ship Empire Windrush docking in Britain, the beginning of the first wave of Jamaican emigration to that country.

War to Windrush is showing at the Imperial War Museum, London until March 2009. Entrance is free.

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