The National Covid Memorial Wall

In loving memory of beloved father, the late Abdul Shakoor, 1949 - 2020

He was born in 1949, in the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. He settled settled in Smethwick in England in 1954. On 7th July 1976, he sat a class one HGV driving test at Purfleet Test Centre, Essex. By passing he became the UK’s first South Asian class one HGV driver. In his 32-year long professional driving  career, he drove across UK and Europe. He loved travelling and had many different interesting stories to tell and encountered many different people along the side.