Windrush anniversary: 'Not seeing my grandparents again was painful'

Northamptonshire's Vice Lord Lieutenant relives what it was like coming to the UK as a girl in 1958.

BBC News, Northamptonshire

It is 75 years since the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks with 492 passengers from the Caribbean. The 75-year-old, who lives in Northampton, said the hardest part was saying goodbye to her grandmother, who she was very close to.

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