The Qureshi Family: Passports, photographs and personal items
Nazir Ahmed Qureshi travelled to Bradford from Pakistan in 1963. After World War Two, there was a recruitment drive in South Asia for key industries in Britain, and Nazir moved to Bradford to begin work in a textile mill.
The passports in this case show Nazir and his wife, Najam-Un-Nisa, through the decades as they made Bradford their family home. The case also includes Nazir’s camera, handmade calligraphy pens and Najam-Un-Nisa’s handbag, where the family passports have always been kept safe.
1. Kodak Instamatic camera which belonged to Nazir Ahmed Qureshi
2. Nazir Ahmed Qureshi, Sujad Ahmed and Najam-Un-Nisa, Ryan Street, 1968
3. Nazir Ahmed Qureshi and Najam-Un-Nisa, Pakistan, c.1967
4. Calligraphy pens which belonged to Nazir Ahmed Qureshi
5. An Urdu poem by Allama Iqbal written on the reverse of a 1966 portrait of Nazir Ahmed Qureshi. Translated to English, the poem reads ‘The abode is not on the dome of a royal palace; You are an eagle and it should live on the rocks of mountains’.
6. Nazir Ahmed Qureshi, Lister Park, c.1967
7. Pakistani and British passports belonging to Nazir Ahmed Qureshi and Najam-Un-Nisa.
8. Najam-Un-Nisa’s handbag, where family passports were stored.
9. British passports belonging to Qureshi family members.