5000 miles. There is more to discover here, a documented East Asian presence has been in UK since the 1600’s. By presence we mean community, people settling here and having families but wherever the UK traded, which happened before, during and after land colonisation people would come here and this is notable especially at the ports.
This picture was taken in 1914 May. It is the earliest known photograph of a Chinese Family in Sheffield, taken 16th May 1914 in the Millsands area. The caption along side this photo states, ‘Pee Chan Ching-a and his family. The Chinese form of the name is reproduced on the left of the picture.’
But a later part-translation of this handwriting contradicts the caption, reading ‘Mr Gan’ instead, Gan being a family name.
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