In pictures: Windrush generations mark 75th anniversary

An accumulation by lensman Jim Grover opens this week, to coincide with the 75th day of the accomplishment of HMT Empire Windrush, which brought 492 Caribbean migrants to the UK. Windrush: A Voyage done the Generations explores what the distinctive Caribbean civilization of the archetypal arrivals means for the consequent generations.

Deborah Klass founded the Windrush Generation Legacy Association, successful Croydon, southbound London, successful 2019, fulfilling the dying wishes of her father, Michael Harry, who arrived from Grenada successful the 1950s. And fractional of the association's portion successful the Whitgift Shopping Centre is dedicated to the re-creation of a accepted beforehand country and bedroom.

"In the archetypal week we had to bargain boxes and boxes of tissues due to the fact that radical would travel successful and reminisce and stock their stories," Ms Klass says. "We were afloat of emotion."

The different fractional of the portion is assemblage abstraction and hosts rotating exhibitions and events. And astatine the opening of Colin Brown's exhibition, Lovers Rock - a signifier of reggae created by the 2nd generation, successful the 1970s - Audrey Scott sang her hit, Goodbye my Love.

Jaxxon Rowe, calved past month, is the youngest idiosyncratic to diagnostic successful Windrush: A Voyage done the Generations.

He is 4th procreation and the archetypal kid of Quincy Rowe, of Jamaican heritage, and Natasha Paine.

"It's incredibly important for maine that helium understands some sides of his heritage," Quincy says.

Brixton Immortals Domino Club is collaborating with Lambeth Libraries to thatch youngsters the game, typically played by "the elders".

This was the archetypal clip Jeremiah had played. And a period later, his Jamaican-born mother, Jenief Marriot, said: "Every day, helium walks astir the location asking for a circular of dominoes. He loves to play. He loves to win."

Three generations of a household gathered successful Margaret Grocia's flat, successful Brixton, southbound London, to observe its blessing by the Reverend Mark Williams, of St John the Divine, successful adjacent Kennington, which included the accepted pouring of tone connected the level arsenic a motion of respect for the dead.

Ms Grocia, 3rd generation, says: "When I deliberation astir Easter successful Jamaica, it's buns and food and fried fish. We bash that each twelvemonth - and the grandchildren cognize that's what we do. They'll hopefully instil it successful their children."

Ingrid Munroe, 73, who arrived from Guyana successful 1972, has taught her granddaughter to crochet, a accepted accomplishment utilized by galore of the aboriginal migrants to decorate their homes.

"When we were connected vacation successful Turkey, past year, we would beryllium connected the balcony and bash crochet together," Carlicia, 13, says.

Ingrid has 4 daughters, six grandchildren and 4 "great-grands".

Traditional Dutch cooking pots specified arsenic this - believed to beryllium astir 40 years aged - are successful galore Jamaican homes.

"For immoderate it's conscionable a cookware - but for america it's a generation-to-generation portion and we navigator the champion curry goat, the champion oxtail, and the champion stewed chickenhearted successful that pot," Alisa Flemming, 3rd generation, says.

Last summer, a parade organised by the West Indian Association of Service Personnel (Wasp), based successful adjacent Clapham, marched proudly up Brixton Road, led by a young drummer.

Every Remembrance Day and a Sunday astir Windrush Day, section dignitaries, veterans, cadets and members of the equipped forces from an array of Caribbean and African countries articulation the parade, which spans the generations.

On Remembrance Day 2021 and 2022, Azizi Peters, present 25, who came to Britain successful 2020 and joined the Army, laid wreaths connected behalf of the equipped forces.

"I'm a Vincentian - I americium from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines," she says.

Twins and mothers Krystyna Antoine and Kerryn Ghann, 36, 4th generation, enactment successful the National Health Service, conscionable similar truthful galore of the archetypal generation.

Krystyna says: "My practice is decidedly successful my DNA. Here, are values I emotion and respect. It's not money. It's not things. It's conscionable being saturated with love, compassion - and food."

Kerryn says: "I take what to impart to my children. If I don't impart my civilization into my kids, they volition suffer it.

"I don't privation my Caribbean civilization to fizz retired and I don't privation my girlies to question their Jamaican and their Ghanaian roots."

Elaine Roberts, whose parents arrived from Jamaica astatine the opening of the 1960s, is portion of a squad that provides a escaped nutrient bundle successful Clapham, mostly for Caribbean elders.

"My mum taught maine to cook," Elaine says. "When we came location from school, maine and my sisters had to navigator nutrient for erstwhile she came successful from her work, arsenic a cleaner successful Vauxhall College. I've taught my children and grandchildren however to navigator Jamaican food.

"It's been 14 years I've been here, each Thursday without fail. It's bully what we are doing here, helping people."

Brightly coloured nail varnish is present appearing astir the domino tables of southbound London.

Founded successful 2021, Diamonds, the lone all-women squad successful the country, drew 30 members from 5 clubs

Aged from their 20s to their 60s, they deterioration baby-pink polo shirts with their nicknames connected the backs.

And successful April, aft beating an all-men Wasp team, successful Clapham, they danced proudly with their trophy to Rihanna's deed Diamonds.

In December 2019, Jayanne Davis (above left), past aged 19, oversaw the accepted pouring of the "last tot" for her mother, Diane, arsenic portion of a accepted Jamaican funeral.

Three years before, Diane had poured the past tot connected to the coffin of her mother, Floris, who had arrived from Jamaica successful the mid-50s to go an NHS nurse.

In 2018, Diane had told Grover: "It's astir keeping your roots and culture. Everything I person been taught I walk connected to my children - so, hopefully, erstwhile it's my time, I volition get that nonstop off, due to the fact that that's what I'd want."

Merah-Louise Smith, 110, is 1 of, if not the, oldest, pistillate of Caribbean practice successful the UK. She arrived from Jamaica successful 1963, pursuing the decease of her husband, successful 1959.

Ms Smith has 3 children, six grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren and volition soon person the state of the borough successful Croydon.

"I inactive americium a Jamaican," she says. "Of people I consciousness Jamaican."