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Bakhshish Singh Bhullar
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Businessman and community leader based in Huddersfield
Place of birth
Date of arrival to Britain
Location(s)
Salendine Nook Shopping Centre, 144 Moor Hill Road
Huddersfield
United Kingdom
Place of death
Huddersfield
Date of time spent in Britain
1952–2014
About
Bakhshish Singh Bhullar migrated from the Punjabi town of Bhullar, India to Huddersfield in 1952. He was accompanied by his brother Mohan Singh Bhullar. They were among the first Sikhs to settle in the town. Bakhshish became a door-to-door salesman, selling groceries and poultry. In 1958 Bakhshish and his brothers, Mohan and Sohan Singh Bhullar, opened their first business together, an Asian goods store on 44 Springwood Street, Huddersfield. Several businesses followed, which became part of the Bhullar Brothers chain. Bhullar Brothers became a limited company on 22 October 1964 and is still in operation.
Bakhshish became the founding president of the Guru Nanak Gurdwara on Prospect Street, Springwood, Huddersfield in 1963. He died in January 2014, aged 88.
Bhullar v Bhullar ([2003] EWCA Civ 424)
GOV.UK, ‘Companies House: Bhullar Bros Limited’, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00824371/officers
‘Prominent NRI Businessman Passes Away in UK’, Hindustan Times (10 September 2008)
Hirst, Andrew, ‘Huddersfield Sikh Community Leader Bakhshish Singh Bhullar Dies’, Yorkshire Live (24 January 2014)
SCT/1/7, II e, Field notes, secretary of the Pakistan National Film Society, Pakistani ‘Voluntary Associations’ Heritage Quay, Huddersfield
SCT/1/7, II e, Interview notes with Pakistani shopkeeper in Huddersfield, Pakistani ‘Voluntary Associations’ Heritage Quay, Huddersfield
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
