Oral History Collective

A mixture of people in the Deptford Area talking about their lives

Harry talks about DAGE, and his life in Deptford

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin hi-jacked a plane to Cuba.

This lady is one of a very few crane drivers and riggers in the Australian mines

Maggie Owen remembers her daughter Melanie Louise DeVere, who was killed in the attack on the World Trade Centre 9/11.

Victoria Opeyokun came to England from Nigeria she lived on £2.00 a week at the laundry factory

Rosie Antrobus lived in an old factory in Hackney. She was the creator of the Famous Cumberland Giants.

Eleanor Salvoni M.B.E Queen of Soho tells how she got the title and her wonderful full life

The day Timmy Mallett hit Margaret Thatcher with his Mallett.

Boss from Nigeria tells how she walked into a job in England within 3 days of arriving in London

Beatrice from Ghana tells of her arrival and how she hated the cold

Roy aka Skippy tells of his arrival and shock of the cold in England in 1964

Edwina Currie recalls her time serving in Margaret Thatchers Cabinet.

Bernadette tells of her life and marriage in Pakistan

Ron Luton-Brown talks about putting faces to the names of men on Norfolk's war memorials

Three famous Speeches, Martin Luther King JR and Robert F. Kennedy

An Oral Historian

Linda on God Save The Queen...

Joan and Barbara

June, Joan and Frank – Wartime life and the Forces Favourites