Windrush Collection
In the early Spring of 1962, I decided that there might be a good photo-opportunity to bus it down to London’s Waterloo Station and take some photographs of the final West Indian arrivals before the British Government Immigration Act 1962, came into force.
Sadly the light conditions there were so bad that no printable negatives could be achieved - until 50 years later, when the introduction of digital scanners could restore this now historic collection for posterity.
All images are the perpetual copyright of Howard Grey © 2021
Grey’s comments on the day shared with Network Rail article.
The process of developing the prints
‘This Destiny’ is a recent poem by Grace Nichols after seeing these Windrush images for the first time. Grace recited her poem at a lecture given by Colin Grant with Howard Grey in Lewes, Sussex UK on February 4th, 2020