Peter & Elizabeth Melia
Peter and Elizabeth were both born near Manchester. Peter joined the RAF and was based at RAF Patrington. Initially they lived on site but liked the area and bought a… Read more Peter & Elizabeth Melia →
Elsie Emily Clayton
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Josephine Kirk
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Kenneth Barley
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Jean Chapman-Sweeney
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Noreen Barley
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Ken Madden
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Lorraine Falcon
Lorraine begins by discussing her early life, growing up in the fishing community of Hessle Road. She describes her childhood home on Brighton Street and some experiences there. She also… Read more Lorraine Falcon →
Susanna Teixeira
Susanna came from Lisbon, Portugal, to join her husband in 2004. They came to the UK because they felt that the prospects were better than in Portugal. She had a… Read more Susanna Teixeira →
Emmanuel Armah
Emmanuel remembers his early years living within an army barracks in Ghana as his father was in the Army. His driving passion for maths led him to defy his mother… Read more Emmanuel Armah →
Lawrence Sibbanda
Lawrence was born and raised in 1993 in South Africa but is of Zimbabwean descent. He grew up in a very diverse multicultural, multi-faith environment immediately after the apartheid era.… Read more Lawrence Sibbanda →
Jennifer McNicholl
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John Scotney
Part 1: John recounts his family history back to the days of his great grand-parents, describing their work, where they lived and their relationship with the Methodist Church. He goes… Read more John Scotney →
Dorothy Davies
Dorothy describes her early life in Hull, growing up in Alexander Road. She talks about her school and social activities in the area. After marriage Dorothy talks about how her… Read more Dorothy Davies →
Helen Route
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Sue Hickson-Marsay
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Sam Foston
Sam was born in Hull and has lived in Hull all his life. Sam talks about his school years from 2007 to 2012 at Sir Henry Cooper Secondary School. He… Read more Sam Foston →
Dennis Price
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Les Thomas
Les recalls his childhood, talking about games he played and his school years. He was a music enthusiast and went to the Adelphi Club, Polar Bear and Malcolm’s nightclub where… Read more Les Thomas →
Linda Appleyard
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Patricia Wick
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Janet Gill
Part 1: Janet had three older siblings who died in an air raid during the Second World War. This was never discussed in the family and she knows very little… Read more Janet Gill →
Maureen Dawson
Maureen describes growing up in the Beverley Road area. She talks about working at Needlers, making sweet boxes. She later became a club singer. Maureen describes what her mother was… Read more Maureen Dawson →
Liz Cagney
Liz was brought up in Birmingham and is of mixed Barbadian and English heritage. She describes her upbringing as that of contrasts where home had an absence of the Barbadian… Read more Liz Cagney →
Audrey Neve
Audrey was a young child during the Second World War. She talks about her experiences of air raids around Morpeth Street and about war time music. There is some discussion… Read more Audrey Neve →
Bacary Bax & Live Lans
Bax and Lans are best known in Hull as two members of the band Bud Sugar. The brothers have roots in two African nations: Senegal and Sierra Leone. They both describe… Read more Bacary Bax & Live Lans →
Val Bibby
Val Bibby’s family background is not entirely known to her but she recalls that her great grandfather was from the West Indies and her grandfather was from Sri Lanka. They… Read more Val Bibby →
Sally Brown
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Dorothy Dixon
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Kofi Smiles
Kofi Smiles was the BBC Face of Hull for 2017. He was born at Beverley Westwood and is of Ghanaian heritage. He talks about how African stories like ‘Anansi the… Read more Kofi Smiles →
Glynis Neslen
Glynis learned of her British-African heritage at the age of sixteen having been fostered at the age of two in Great Yarmouth. She came to Hull in 1999 via London… Read more Glynis Neslen →
Julie Parker
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Danny Platten
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Lily Hancock
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Brian Darvell
Brian remembers his early life in Abbey Street and Wingfield Road in Hull. He talks about his working life with anecdotal memories. Brian also talks about the club scene in… Read more Brian Darvell →
Glenda Clark
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Pam Brice
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Siddi Majuba
Siddi Maju was born in Sierra Leone in the 1970s. He has visited Hull several times following his first visit in 2006 and has very recently moved to Hull after… Read more Siddi Majuba →
Ebrima Touray
Ebrima Touray was born in the early 1970s in Gambia. He is one of twenty children and as the eldest male, he remains head of his family from a distance.… Read more Ebrima Touray →
Gifty Burrows
Gifty talks about her childhood leaving Ghana as a 7 year old girl with her younger brother without being able to speak English. Her upbringing in Huddersfield and Bury in… Read more Gifty Burrows →
Jason Bowers
Jason’s connection to Jamaica through his grandfather is not immediately apparent to most people who know him but he is proud of his blended heritage that also reflects other European… Read more Jason Bowers →
Gaynor Harkin
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Thomas Neilson
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Anonymous
This person speaks about living in Barrow upon Humber and travelling to Hull by ferry across the Humber for shopping and entertainment. Also mentions evacuation of a Hull School (Southcoates… Read more Anonymous →
Chris D’Andilly
Chris talks about growing up on North Hull Estate. He describes what the estate was like in the 60s compared to what it is like now. Media No: 1041 Interviewee… Read more Chris D’Andilly →