Commemorating Windrush Day

Sunday 22 June is Windrush Day – an annual celebration to honour the contribution of the Windrush generation and their descendants to British society. The Windrush generation refers to people who immigrated to Britain from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1973.

Linda Pope is a family lawyer and a descendant of the Windrush generation, her parents settling in Britain from Grenada in 1959 and 1965. She talks to two individuals about their experiences arriving in post war Britain.

Judy was born on the Island of St Vincent, and came here in September 1963 as an almost 8 year old little girl with her older brother and sister following her parents who arrived in 1959 and in 1961. Left by her parents to live with her maternal grandmother she remembers this time to be sad as grandmother was not a nice person and was quite cold. By the time she and her siblings reunited with their parents, Judy says it was like they were like strangers which unfortunately was a