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Recordiad sain / Audio recording: Veris Ethelyn Carnegie & Clement Carnegie

Carnegie, Veris Ethelyn (Interviewer)
Carnegie, Clement (Interviewer)
Bennett, Lenaine (Interviewer)

Oral history recording with Veris Ethelyn Carnegie and Clement Carnegie from the Back-a-Yard project. This project collected stories from older African-Caribbean people who came to live in Newport from the 1940s onwards, including their recollections of the Caribbean and reasons for coming to the UK. A partnership with the South East Wales Racial Equality Council (SEWREC) supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Collection Area

Social & Cultural History

Item Number

AV 11773

Historical Associations

Association Type: Locality of the evidence
Date: 09/04/2015
Place: Casnewydd | Newport (Monmouthshire)
Association Type: Locality of the evidence
Date: 09/04/2015
Place: Jamaica

Creation/Production

Carnegie, Veris Ethelyn
Born in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, in 1938. She flew to the UK in 1961 to join her husband, Clement Carnegie.
Carnegie, Clement
Born 24 May 1931 in the parish of St Elizabeth, Jamaica. Arrived in the UK in January 1960, living first in London and then Wolverhampton. He was drawn to Newport by the prospect of work at the new Spencer Works (later to be known as Llanwern steelworks).
Bennett, Lenaine
Role: Interviewee
Role: Interviewee
Role: Interviewer
Place: Casnewydd | Newport (Monmouthshire)
Period: 09/04/2015

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Donation

Techniques

Digidol | born digital

Categories

Black history Windrush
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