Kings Heath

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Whoever's going to see Lukuna tomorrow at the Hare & Hounds in Birmingham, Kings Heath, I'll be there with some of the boys, the Body People boys, for an evening of wonderful Lukuna weirdness.

Sensibly took the Monday off, of course.

Except accepted a load of meetings in the afternoon like an idiot.

Beautiful place to go for a swim.

And then we got out for dinner in this brilliant restaurant called Pero's, which is in Kings Heath, and I was like, "We- it's all here."

Yeah.

And if we'd wanted to go to the theater, we could have done.

And the Anglo-Indian race, as with much of the Indian system anyway, the caste system, were allowed to go so far but not to the top.

uh and after independence in 1947 they were suddenly really neither having been both indian and english suddenly after partition they were neither english nor indian so they were really lost And the majority of the Anglo-Indian population fled and mostly went to Canada, Australia, and Kings Heath in Birmingham.

For some reason, there's Kings Heath in Birmingham, Croydon, and somewhere else in England that the majority of the Anglo-Indian population went to from India.

And so my father was part of that exodus, really.

And he was the first McGowan in his line, my line, to live in England.

Surprise, surprise.

Yes, we were at King's Heath just down the road, actually.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not too far away.