# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CfHPB1Qoo1i
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16444375-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-06-22T15:44:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

Named for the generation of Caribbean migrants who made a home in the UK following the end of WWII, Windrush Day celebrates their profound contribution and legacy. ⁠
Follow our bio link to explore the wider history of Black Britain through the gettyarchive collections, or swipe to see:⁠
1. Three young women arrive at Southampton docks in England, 1962 | Popperfoto via Getty Images⁠
2. Sara Forbes Bonetta, god-daughter of Queen Victoria, with her husband James Davies, 1862 | Camille Silvy/Hulton Archive⁠
3. Soccer player Jack Leslie from Plymouth Argyle FC, 1922 | Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive⁠
4. A crowd of children greet Queen Mary, wife of King George V, in Brixton, London, 1938 | Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive⁠
5. Army Transport Service worker Diana Williams, from Guyana (then British Guiana), retreads tires at one of the largest ordnance depots in England, in an effort to economize on rubber during WWII | Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images⁠
6. RAF sergeant Owen Sylvester of the West Indies, with Laureen Goodare of St Pancras, after their wedding at St Pancras Town Hall, London, 21st October 1944. Goodare is a former member of the National Fire service | Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive⁠
7. Two dancers from Les Ballets Negres, Europe's first black dance company, rehearse on the beach at the seaside resort town of Llandudno in Wales in July 1949. Les Ballets Negres, founded and conceived by Jamaican dancer Berto Pasuka, were appearing at the Pier and Pavilion in Llandudno | Auerbach/Popperfoto via Getty Images⁠
8. A man on the tube at Edgware Road, 1967 | Charlie Phillips/Getty Images | charlierootsfoto⁠
9. A young girl in her carnival costume during rehearsals for the Notting Hill Carnival, London, August 1994 | Steve Eason/Hulton Archive | steve8eason⁠
10.	Black Lives Matter protestor Jen Reid poses for a photograph in front of a sculpture of herself, by local artist Marc Quinn, on the plinth where the Edward Colston statue used to stand on July 15, 2020 in Bristol, England | Matthew Horwood/Getty Images | matthew_horwood⁠
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#GettyImages #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive #WindrushDay ⁠
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