ATV Today: 20.02.1968: Immigration and Education

Summary

John Wilford report about the provisions in Wolverhampton for the education of Indian and Pakistani school pupils.

Year:

1968

Duration:

0:11:14

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Interviews with Councillor Walter Hughes, the chairman of Wolverhampton Education Committee, a Wolverhampton education official and the headmistress of a local school. Views of Asian residents of Wolverhampton walking on street and congregating outside a school in the snow. Also views of home life including a mother cooking chapatis as well as shots of children in a school classroom and a PE lesson in a hall.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

The teacher being interviewed may be Mrs Eileen Llewellin-Davies who was the head of West Park primary school in Wolverhampton. She was interviewed in the press around the same time giving very similar class figures as here.