Real voices February 12 2008

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.