[12] Shinde (A1) is also father of Conservative Councillor Gurjit Kaur Bains[18] who stood to be MP in Walsall[19] in 2019, but was not elected.

[14] Day centre alumni include the WW2 fighter pilot Squadron Leader Mohinder Singh Pujji.

In line with the Sikh principle of Sarbat da bhala, the Gurdwara served 60,000 free meals to hospital staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

However in the early 50s the first Guru Granth Sahib seems to have been brought to Gravesend by Mr Darshan Singh Sangha, a family from near Amritsar.

[17] A library of 500 books was set up in the 60s, having been brought over from India by the then schoolteacher and librarian, Joginder Singh Mattu.

[14] The Edwin Street Gurdwara was not closed for the first 2 years of the Clarence Place site operation, but was eventually sold for £2,500.

In 1976, the then Gurdwara President, Mohan Singh, was attacked by the National Front and thrown through the plate glass window of Woolworth's in Gravesend town centre.

[33] In the 1970s, due to National Front defacement with Swastikas and slogans, then President Mohan Singh organised patrols of 5-6 people at night to watch the Gurdwara and prevent further graffiti.

[14] Local Sikhs, as well as English individuals such as Andy Zeffer and Jill Anderson of the Anti-Nazi League, as well as future mayor Lady Murray,[34] Anglo Indian Naina Sampson (who was born in Delhi and fluent in Punjabi), Miss Braby who began a local club to help Punjabi women learn English, and many others, assisted in working to protest National Front attacks.

[38] [39] Initially attempting to hide in an empty prayer room, he was found and accosted by security during their lockup.