IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE "RACE RELATIONS INDUSTRY"

 

Short of ready cash - the rag-and-bone trade is in a slump - Albert Steptoe decides to advertise for a lodger:

"To let. Room in fashionable mews cottage. Clean linen. Suit professional person. Five pounds a week. No wogs."

UPDATE: Sunny Hundal finds that Albert's prejudices linger on:

The BBC’s Inside Out programme did a little test to see if people in South England were willing to break the law to discriminate against Asians. No problem there. In fact the estate agents sounded as if they had requests for ‘No Asians please’ all the time.