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Suspected race hate vandals smash up black artist's exhibition and tribute to the Windrush generation

Damaged walkway at the Windrush exhibition where vandals smashed the glass pic credit: Evewright The Afro Caribbean people who came to the UK in the 1940s to the 1970s-known as the Windrush generation after the first ship MV Empire Windrush that brought them from Jamaica, Trinidad and other West Indies islands- have suffered a lot in the last few years at the hands of successive Tory…

Windrush Exhibition Delayed

This year sees the 72nd anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush bringing in the first organised group of West Indian workers to the UK.  They were invited here to reduce the staffing shortage at London Transport and entered England via Tilbury Bridge.

The bridge is intact, but was no longer in use, so artist Everton Wright, known as EVEWRIGHT has used it for an exhibition.  It is called The Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories and it has images installed on over 500 panes of glass representing the lives of Windrush pioneers and descendants.  The photograph above shows EVEWRIGHT at the exhibition site at Tilbury Cruise Terminal, Essex.  There’s more on https://www.windrushday.org.uk/news/tilbury-bridge-walkway-of-memories-a-tribute-to-the-windrush-generation/

Unfortunately coronavirus restrictions have delayed the physical opening indefinitely.  It is, however, hoped that it will have an online presence soon.  There’s more about the delay on https://thurrock.nub.news/n/tilbury39s-new-art-installation-is-delayed-by-covid39s-rule-of-six