Before the partition of India and Pakistan my father served as a driving instructor in the British Army, a career which ended when a learner driver caused an accident in which his leg was crushed. He then set up a business selling animal feed to farmers but decided to take up his right of residency in the UK and came to Sheffield in 1959, first working in the Edgar Allen steel foundry. In 1963 he decided to bring his family to England. Well, most of it. At the age of 13 I was sent to a boarding school for army officers’ sons but I ran away to join my mother and two brothers in Rawalpindi, enabling us all to come to Sheffield together! At the age of 15 I proudly took up my first job in the UK making bricks at Allen St Brickyard for the grand sum of £12 per week!


Attercliffe Hilltop Cemetery