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During the 1930s Southall attracted people from depressed coal minning areas of southa wales and Durham, as well as from Ireland.
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During the 1930s Southall attracted people from depressed coal minning areas of southa wales and Durham, as well as from Ireland. After the second world war, it was again work that first brought balck and asian people to Southall. Post-war britian had an enormouse need for unskilled labour as war damage was repaired and the services improved. In the boom years of the 1950s firms around Southall actively recruited Asian workers, not only to increase industrial output but also to fill gaps left by English workers who, able to move to better employment, were rejecting the more dirty, badly paid jobs In the 1951 census, out of the total poulation of 55,896, only 330 wrer recorded as being from the commonwailth. Most of the the early arrivals wrere young sikh men from jullundhar and Hoshiarpur regions of ht epunjab, many having fought in the Indian army during the 2nd world war....
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