Greetings from bury park

Greetings from Bury Park Chapter 1

By Mima2023

  • Mohammed Manzoor official birthday

    -Sarfraz´ birthday
    -birthday given to him by the british
    -month and year are wrong->year is probably 34
    -his father was a soldier in the japan-brittain war

  • Rasool Bibi´s birthday

    -Sarfraz´ mom
    -distantly realted to his father
    -month and year are wrong
    -lived in Paharang

  • Rasool´s dad dies

    -a year later her brother´s wife and her sister die->she has to take care of her mother at only 14 years old
    -presumably

  • Mohammed and Rasool´s wedding

    -neither of them can recall the precise date
    -Mohammed´s family were against the marriage

  • Navela´s birthyear

    -older sister of Sarfraz
    -presumably January of 1962

  • Sohail´s birthyear

    -older brother of Sarfraz
    -December of 1962

  • Mohammed leaves for England

    -second week of January
  • Period: to

    Mohammed lives in England without wife and kids

    -visits three times:
    -three weeks in 1965
    -eight months in 1970
    -three weeks in 1973

  • Sarfraz´s birthyear

    -Mohammed only recieved the message two weeks later and changes his name from Javed to Sarfraz

  • Family moves to Karachi

    -three weeks after Sarfraz was born

  • Bombings in Karachi

    -family lives in Karachi
    -Mohammed gets scared, plans for rest of family to come to England

  • Rasool and the kids arrive in London (Luton),England

    -Rasool told her mom two months before she left->mom gets fever and dies
    -Sarfraz is almost three
    -Mohammed is 41

  • Rasool tries to work in textile factory

    -Rasool made clothes for the village after her father died
    -was in Luton less than six months
    -nobody wants to hire her, because she doesn´t speak English
    -Mohammed buys second hand sewing machine, Navela und Rasool work from home

  • Uzma ´s Birthyear

    -Born when family already in England

  • Manzoor family is moving from Bury Park to Marsh Farm

  • Mohammed looses his job

    -Sarfraz is fifteen

  • Sarfraz moves out

    • he´s 17/18 years old -left to study in Manchester

  • Sarfraz gets dreadlocks

    -his father had become very religious->not pleased with Sarfraz´ hair

  • Sarfraz´ first interview

    • first interview, with Elizabeth Wurtzel

  • Mohammed gets into the hospital

    -Sarafraz was back in Manchester, didn´t get to Luton until his father was already in the ICU
    -he had a heart attack

  • Mohammed Manzoor died

    -had been in a coma since may 28th

  • Sarfraz returns to Manchester