IN 1936 I lived at 172 Derby Road with my parents, moving to 217 Northumberland Road in 1938.

The area was then solid working class, my father a taxi driver and others working in the docks or local shipyards. Denzil and Cranbury Avenues were “posh”, with resident retired army officers, doctors and the like.

On the evening of April 10, 1941, a landmine was dropped at the bottom of Derby and Northumber-land Roads, demolishing two rows of houses and the roof above my head whilst I was in bed.

We then moved to nearby Compton Walk and then Graham Road, until 1945, when we left the area. I therefore have an intimate knowledge of the Derby Road area as it used to be.

I looked forward to the Immigration Street programme, thinking that the many immigrants who live there would give an account of where they came from, why they came and if they achieved their ambition.

The term “immigrant”, of course, is in no way racist, it is a factual des-cription of someone who moves to another country to live.

The Channel 4 programme, however, was more about how a TV programme can be disrupted.

It was not the programme that placed my city in a bad light, it was the minority of foul mouthed, ignorant and aggressive individuals who did that.

Jim Brown, formerly of Sholing, Southampton, now in Caterham, Surrey.