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

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

Published: 1991

Gatehouse published this book to recognise and make public the long-term pain and distress heaped onto those who survive child sexual abuse. “I enjoyed going to college, meeting

A British Pakistani woman recalls a childhood trip to Pakistan. Published: 1999

Mick and Val are both from mining villages in County Durham. Published: 1975

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

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.

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

Eric was born in 1924 in Runcorn, Cheshire. Betty was born in 1928 in Douglas, Isle of Man and was raised by her grandparents. Together they had eight