WINDRUSH: ARRIVAL 1948 PASSENGER LIST

The majority of the migrants sailing on the Windrush paid £28 to travel to the UK, responding to advertisements placed in local newspapers. Here you can explore recreations of 1,027 individual landing cards (the originals were controversially destroyed by the Home Office in 2010), the brainchild of Dr John Price, senior lecturer in history at Goldsmiths, University of London. The cards are based on a passenger list held at The National Archives (and available on Ancestry), and include name, occupation, proposed address and more. For Windrush Day last year (22 June) Goldsmiths teamed up with map-based website Layers of London ( layersoflondon.org) to create a layer of the addresses supplied by Windrush passengers.