Do the limbo! How the Windrush brought a dance revolution to Britain

The Caribbeans who answered the call to save postwar Britain sparked a dance explosion. A new show relives those heady daysWhen the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in 1948, the Trinidadian singer Lord Kitchener was among the 492 Caribbean passengers arriving to begin a new life in Britain. Journalists mobbing the Essex docks asked the jauntily debonair Kitch to sing for them and, barely missing a beat, he responded with his newly composed calypso, London Is the Place for Me. Kitch’s opti