Growing up, in a small farming village. The first coloured person, I ever saw was, "Sinjie". Around 1949.....
A casual labourer. He wore a green boiler suit, and a big "bandage", around his head.
Being near to Bradford, I was a machine setter, for several Pakistanis/ Indians/ Arabs, during the 1960's.
In Derbyshire, 50 miles south. A coloured face, is even now, a rarity. In 1978 our son came home from school. "There's a little brown boy, come in to our school"......