Lorry fire Tilbury docks. | The Havering Daily

77 years ago HMS Windrush sailed into Tilbury docks carrying the hopes, dreams aspirations of 492 Jamaicans and other West Indians, who answered the British government’s call and came to rebuild Britain from the ashes of World War II. Make no mistake. It was their contribution that made Britain great. My mum, dad , grandparents were part of that wave of migrants that arrived with their BRITISH passports and pushed through a hostile host to make a life for themselves, the future children and like