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Malcolm Squires interviewed by Colin Hyde, 4 October 2013
No full textMemories of Leicester's cultural quarter. Work as pest controller. Recorded for Makers Yard project in the Cultural Quarter
Ghost sign for Bovril on Beaconsfield Road, 2013.
No full textThis is a three-layered sign for Bovril, a company selling meat extract typically used to make 'beef tea' and later beef stock. Bovril was developed in the 1870s as a 'war food' for the Franco-Prussian War before launching in the UK in 1886. Bovril is still available for purchase and is now owned by Unilever.
The top layer featuring the ‘Little Bovril’ calf and the slogan ‘A little Bovril puts beef into it’ has almost entirely deteriorated. The date of the sign could be anywhere from the start of the ‘Little Bovril’ advertising campaign in 1947 into the 1950s. An older sign featuring the text, ‘Bovril the essence of good cooking’ has been revealed. The third layer can be seen in the top left-hand corner, although it's not certain this is a Bovril advert. The painter's name - Cundy & Son (probably the local firm T.E. Cundy & Son Ltd) - can now be seen in the bottom left-hand corner
Helsinki, 2013
No full textColour photograph of Helsinki's bar, previously J. Herbert Marshall Music Depo
Wimbledon House doorway.
No full textColour photograph of a door to the Wimbledon Building, Wimbledon Street
Ghost sign for WS Fowler, Boot Manufacturer, on Wood Hill, 2010.
No full textGhost sign for 'WS Fowler Boot Manufacturer'. Although not all the lettering is visible, Kelly's directory for 1916 shows a William S Fowler, boot manufacturer at 13 and a half, Wood Hill. By 1926 there is an Isaac Ross listed as a boot and shoe engineer at 13 Wood Hill. The sign for WS Fowler has been painted on top of another, but it is hard to make this out. In 1908, F Sharp and Co, boot manufacturers, are listed at 13 and a half, so this may be the original sign
Rajni Mashru interviewed by Sadiq Ahamed, 6 June 2013
No full textRajni discussed adapting to life in Leicester from Uganda and adapting religion and worship to life in a foreign country
Ranju Modha interviewed by Dipak Joshi, 27 September 2013
No full textTalks about adapting to life in the UK after she moved from Uganda, what she misses most about her life in Uganda and the influence that her African roots has on her fashion business
Subhash Chander Sahdev interviewed by Gurpreet Grewal-Santini, 5 June 2013
No full textTells of moving around Uganda for his father's job, inter-racial marriages and what the hardest thing for him to leave behind was
Praful Thakrar interviewed by Gurpreet Grewal-Santini, 26 July 2013
No full textDescribes how he came to England for further education before the mass expulsion and seeing his sister coming off a plane from Uganda on the television