ATV Today: 12.08.1965: Race Ban on Sale of New House

Summary

Peter Wilson reports that a Wolverhampton estate agents have refuse an Indian man the chance of buying a new house and are therefore operating a 'colour bar'.

Year:

1965

Duration:

0:01:50

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Peter Wilson piece to camera standing outside Skelding and Boucher estate agents in Wolverhampton. He explains that when 39 year old Balwant Singh, a bus conductor from Wolverhampton, went to Skelding and Boucher to buy a house on the Lyndale estate at Wednesfield he was told that they would not sell to 'coloured people'. Wilson reports that the instruction came from the builders William Whittingham and Co. Ltd.


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