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CWR,3 mins

Services to mark Windrush Day

Sandra Godley

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This coming week there will be a number of events in Coventry to mark Windrush day on June 22nd. It's celebrated every year to remember the first people from the Caribbean to arrive in the UK on board the MV Empire Windrush, on 22 June 1948 to help fill post-war jobs in Britain. More people from countries like Jamaica and Trinidad followed between 1948 and 1971 and they were known as the Windrush generation. BBC CWR's Ushma Mistry has been to meet Gwen Daley who is one of them and has made Coventry her home for the past 60 years.

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