22-06-2018 18:28 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Windrush service celebrates generation's contribution to Britain

Westminster Abbey filled with music, laughter and solemn reflection as 2,000 people gathered to celebrate the contribution of the Windrush generation and their descendants.On Friday, 70 years after the MV Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in Essex in 1948, carrying about 500 hopeful migrants, a service was held to recognise the contribution of the Windrush generation to British society – and acknowledge the difficulties they had overcome.Steel drums rang out the hymn Amazing Grace as guest
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