East
To West is a Â鶹Éç North documentary looking at the lives of those who
left their lives behind in South Asia to come to the district from
the 1950s to the present day. These are just some of the people featured!
Abdur
Rahman Khan worked
in the mills when he first arrived in Bradford but later trained
to be a teacher.
While
training as a teacher, Abdur was interviewed by the Â鶹Éç for a television
series called Minorities in Britain, transmitted on June 27th 1966.
He says: "I became one of the first Asian teachers in Bradford.
To children, I was a novelty. To teachers,there was a mixed reaction.
I was invading their territory in some ways but I got on with people
very well. Pakistan means 'land of pure' and people started to call
Pakistanis 'Pakis' as if it was a swear word, so that sort of thing
started coming on. The streets were littered with graffiti, "Paki
go home" and all that business. Some people even criticised
the smell of curry."
Â鶹Éç Bradford and West Yorkshire
National Museum of Photography,
Film and Television,
Bradford
BD1 1NQ
(+44) 01274 841051 bradford@bbc.co.uk westyorkshire@bbc.co.uk
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