It is 75 years since the HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, on 22 June 1948, a symbol of a generation of migrants who arrived in England from the West Indies. In the 1950s, Derrick Burton’s mum and dad were lured by the promise of a better life, leaving behind their three children, including four-year-old Derrick. In his own words, Derrick, now 74, and living near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, reflects on the discrimination he encountered for the first time when he was eventually reunited with his parents.