BEST DAYS OF OUR LIVES
A multicultural East London heritage project Nuru Islam, born 1944, Bangladesh,
“...with the palm tree lids we called them “Tal... talgasher...tata” big big lids, so we used to cut them short with the bamboo sticks and we used to make little houses and we used to go inside like a tent.”
Roy Graham, born 1935, Forest Gate /Jamaica on Crown and Anchor, You’ve got a table with certain motifs and they match the motifs on the dice. If it comes up, then that’s what you get paid on”.
Vera Wright, born 1927, Redbridge,“You had to
have imagination. Because otherwise you’d be bored like children are now”.
Angela Andrew, child of the 70’s, Hackney on Curb Ball (a.k.a Curby)“You’d have to throw the ball so it would hit the curb. And the fun part was dodging it.”
Nichola Charalambou, born 1972, Redbridge/Hackney,“I do
remember the Sindy wardrobe and the Sindy sofa. She had a fancy red leather sofa. ...And then an ‘S’ engraved...it was a white plastic wardrobe with the gold S above the doors”.
We focus on the toys and games played in East London’s multicultural communities in the last 50 years bestdaysofourlivesproject.wordpress.com