On 22 June 1948 The 'Empire Windrush' brought the first immigrants from the West Indies to the United Kingdom. They came to fill vacancies in London Transport, the railways, and many other areas. As I remember from that year, the wages offered by those concerns were too little to attract the indigenous people of Great Britain. Men came in from the colonies. They worked for these wages. They managed to send money home. It was the beginning of an immense change in the demographic makeup of this country - and eventually a great change in social attitudes. Just one of the events that have taken place in my rather varied lifetime. francis cameron, oxford, 22 june 2010
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