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Kavita Puri meets the pioneer migrants from the Indian subcontinent in the 50s and 60s.

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Kavita Puri and her father Ravi.

We hear his story in Three Pounds in My Pocket

  • Gunwant Grewal with her husband and daughter Shabnam
  • Gunwant Grewal in her running days (top) before arriving in the UK
  • Gunwant Grewal and family
  • Gunwant Grewal loved trips to the beach on arrival in England
  • Gurparshad Bance arrived aged 13, in 1955, from Ambala, India. He eventually got a job working on British trains.
  • Gurparshad Bance on the trains.
  • Gurparshad Bance (right) with his family after arriving in the UK.
  • Gurparshad Bance today.
  • Ravi Datt Puri still has the passport he arrived with on 14th November, 1959.
  • Ravi Datt Puri
  • Kavita Puri and her father Ravi.
  • Inderjit and Kulwant Selhi. Kulwant came to the UK from Bombay in 1954 on his 18th Birthday.

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