National Windrush Monument | |
Location: | Waterloo Station, London, England |
Mapframe: | yes |
Designer: | Basil Watson |
Type: | Sculpture |
Material: | Bronze |
Dedicated: | Windrush generation |
Open: | 2022 |
Coordinates: | 51.5034°N -0.1137°W |
The National Windrush Monument is a bronze sculpture by Basil Watson in Waterloo Station, London. It was unveiled in June 2022 by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.[1] The monument commemorates the British West Indian immigrants who came to the United Kingdom on board HMT Empire Windrush in 1948, who subsequently became known as the Windrush generation.[2] [3] The inscription accompanying the monument lists the members of the Windrush Committee who commissioned the sculpture, and a poem by Laura Serrant, "You Called ... and We Came".