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?? T h e W i n d r u s h —
Sixty years ago the first foreigners sailed in from the West Indies aboard the MV Empire Windrush each had paid ??28.10s (??28.50) to make that historic journey from the Caribbean.
They arrived in Britain with badly needed skills, a willingness to work and the hope of a better standard of living.
It was after the war and when thousands of people were leaving Great Britain for Australia; New Zealand; South Africa and Canada, so Britain urgently needed labour, especially to clean the hospitals, run the buses and to help rebuild Britain.
At the time the country had a Minister for the Colonies who said, —Don't worry these people will only be here for one English winter, then they will go home . . .?? That was then.
Sixty years on, the generation of Caribbean??s who transformed Britain economically, politically and culturally after the world war are nearing the end of their working lives. Many are now fulfilling a long-deferred dream to return to the countries from which they came. Figures to support the scale of this return are patchy. Many returnees have dual citizenship and, given family ties, few have broken with Britain definitively. But anecdotally, the evidence is overwhelming. All across the islands, crates are arriving, new houses being built and returnees?? associations springing up. And just as their arrival radically altered Britain, so their return is having a considerable effect on the Caribbean. ??We were pioneers when we left and we are pioneers now we have come back . .??
?? E m p i r e W i n d r u s h —
A sense of achievement is felt after decades of their working lives spent away from home has finally come to an end. The colours of the Caribbean sea and blueness of the sky, the warmth of the sun on their skin and the freshness of the many fruits at ones finger tips . . . —Mmmm . . There's No Place Like Home??
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