The Western Mail has published my letter asking for people to contact me about my project, especially people from the black community in Butetown who grew up during the War.
I get a phone call on Saturday from Edna Sadler, aged 75, who was a black African child growing up in Cardiff down the Docks.
She has written her lifestory as part of a recent MA at Manchester University. She tells me tales of her days at grammar school - the only black person there and her mother telling her not to say the family is from Africa.
'Tell them you are Portuguese and that you live in Grangetown'( a white working class area adjoining the Docks).
She agrees to talk to me further and is writing to me.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Starting research February 8 2008
It's time to get down to the real research and plan the time it is going to take.
Got to find the right materials and want to meet some of the people who go all the way back to the late 1930s and 1940s.
I have found organisations in Cardiff which link directly to the history of the local black community.
Understanding the global context will inform my writing.Cardiff was the coal capital before the first world war and by the outbreak of the second world war exports had halved.
It was a hub for sending equipment to American forces in Europe in 1944 and was also a target for the German bombs.
Got to find the right materials and want to meet some of the people who go all the way back to the late 1930s and 1940s.
I have found organisations in Cardiff which link directly to the history of the local black community.
Understanding the global context will inform my writing.Cardiff was the coal capital before the first world war and by the outbreak of the second world war exports had halved.
It was a hub for sending equipment to American forces in Europe in 1944 and was also a target for the German bombs.
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