Ancestor Gateway Forum - STAMFORD MEMORIES GATEWAY (Lincolnshire England) used as PRIDE and PREJUDICE FILM SET New Topic  |  Search Thread Topic: Indian salesmen Topic Originator: Mike Laughton Post Date April 13, 2012 @ 4:51 PM  Indian salesmen Mike Laughton April 13, 2012 @ 4:51 PM Reply  |  Email  |  Print  |  Top I wonder if anyone else remembers the Indian door-to-door salesmen that used to visit Stamford during the late 1940s and early 1950s. I remember that, as a small child, I was fascinated by them and their turbans which I thought were quite exotic.  (This was years before mass immigration from India and Pakistan began). The salesmen were always very smartly dressed with a collar and tie and offered to sell a range of items from a suitcase.  They would sell all kinds of things including shirts and other clothing and didn't seem to specialize in any one range of items such as cleaning products. As I recall their command of English was not very good and they seemed to have a few key phrases such as: "You very lucky lady." I assume they were self-employed. Up to then I had only ever seen Turbans in Sabu films and wished I could have had one.