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East To West
East To West is a BBC 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!
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Rajinder Paul Johar was one of the many Asian people in Bradford who visited the Belle Vue photographic studio on Manningham Lane.

The pictures were often sent back to India or Pakistan to demonstrate to relatives that everything was going well in England.

He says: "I sent my first photograph back to India and my wife wrote back asking if I was working for the police - because the conductor's uniform looked like a police uniform. Then when she saw me working on the buses she was very upset. She said, 'You were a headteacher back in India - what are you doing here?'"

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Rajinder then...
...and now


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