Arrivals at Heathrow

Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive. A family arriving at Heathrow airport, having flown from Kenya. Captioned “London: Asians from Kenya arrive at London (Heathrow) Airport from Nairobi shortly after it was announced in the House of Commons that steps were being taken to curb the tide of Asians fleeing to Britain from alleged racial discrimination by black Africans. There were 700 of them on the VC 10 that landed following in the footsteps of the thousands that have flooded into Britain in recent weeks.”