Stories

This section is dedicated to sharing some of the in-depth stories behind the photo collections that we are working with. We are already gathering a rich mix of very different tales that we have either recorded with participants or that they have written themselves.

Do you have a set of photographs and a story about them you want to share? Contact us at geoff@livingmemory.live

Susan Thomas Davidson

Emil, Henryka and Ludwig

Joseph Potts

Ned Williams

Bert Walker

Ron Moss

Sharon Offley

Imamzadi Wasan

Mahmooda Begham

Josephine Radcliffe

Sue Jones

Sydney and Violet Hughes

Gladys Willets

Marion Wyers

Alan Parkin

Mike Poulton

Herma Hansle

Robert Hazel

Jean Sweetland

Nasra Parveen

Saima Bi

Jim Rippin

Marie Stanaway

Diana Higgs

William Higgs

Emaan

Bob Mansell

Marianne Monro

William Henry Poulton

Anne Willetts

Jackie Garbett

John Bellenger

Gary and Dorothy

Peter Hayward

John Shrimpton

Ruth Collins

Lynne Jones

Lynne Jones shares some of her photographs and stories from her life.

Bill Mansell

Jane Braznell talks about her late uncle Bill and his adventurous life.

Jean Woodfield

Brendan Jackson

the time machine turns up all manner of capsules from the past

Will King

Will King took thousands of photographs of the Black Country canal network.

Keith Hodgkins

John Henry Price

John tells us about his life and how he met his wife Lily in Northern Ireland in 1949

Herma Hansle

Joy Hansle talks about a few photographs of her mother Herma.

Jacqui Prosser

My grandparents were a huge influence in my life and I'm extremely proud of them and my Black Country heritage

Mike Fenton

Oldbury Carnival - 'the heady days of the 1960s'

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