Personal objects

Zafran remembers seeing a lot of ornaments on display in his grandmother’s house, on the mantelpiece and in glass-fronted cupboards. This was repeated in many of the houses in the village and people also displayed guns, religious pictures and text, hand woven hanging carpets and on occasion pictures. Zafran recalls that in his youth Asian men used to make a habit of taking photographs of their possessions in England; not just the china, but also things like radios, televisions and cars. This was a reflection of the culture they had been brought up with, sending these pictures back to the old country to show their families was a way of showing how prosperous they were in Britain.