Day In, Day Out: Leisure
These excerpts were written by a north Manchester women who were in their seventies and nineties at the time of publication in 1985. Mary: We used to walk
Just Lately I Realise Stories from West Indian Lives by Various
Life stories from Manchester’s West Indian population. Tales from back home, the culture shock of uprooting from the rural Caribbean to Britain’s heavily industrialised urban centres. The writers
A Song for Carrying Water by Various
[Quantity?] Somali folktales with English translations. Published: 1997
Taking Some Honey Home by Zahida Affridi
A British Pakistani woman recalls a childhood trip to Pakistan. Published: 1999
Lifetimes Volume 6: Out of the Funnel
Mick and Val are both from mining villages in County Durham. Published: 1975
Lifetimes Volume 7: Half-way home
Ron is a youth worker from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. He attended grammar school and the London School of Economics before moving to Partington. Hazel was born in Cheetham Hill
Lifetimes Volume 5: Near The Witching Hour
Sally and Sarse Gallagher came to England from separate sides of the Irish border, she from County Tyrone in Northern Ireland and he from Donegal in the Republic.
Lifetimes Volume 4: Once There Was a Way
John Best was born and raised in Josey Hill, Barbados, coming to Manchester in his twenties. He had nine children with his wife, Olive, who according to the