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Oral history recording with Glaston Loderick, born in Trelawney, Jamaica. Recorded as part of Race Council Cymru’s Windrush Cymru Heritage Project.

“Chalky White, now he was a man who ran the youth club and all… Great man. Butetown [has] lot of history about that man.”

Glaston Loderick was born in Trelawney, Jamaica. Glaston’s father worked at Super Oil Seals for 30 plus years, and his mother was a nurse in Heath and Glan Ely Hospitals, Cardiff.

“When my parents were away I lived with my grandmother and I remember a lot of things about [her], she was a nice lady, a good lady.”

“My dad sent for me and my brother and we came over… I came here when I was just 10. I know exactly when I came in April, 66’, when World Cup winning started…”

“I left school at 15 but I had a job…I started work there three years, motor mechanic, and my two other brothers there were motor mechanics as well… I’m a worker, I like to work, I don’t like to hang about.”

“There’s always been a Black history in Cardiff… back in the day, it was all different nationalities… it’s quieter and people get on.”

“I lived in Butetown for a while and I know everybody down there and everybody know me, like… Down the docks was wicked. That was the place to be back in the 80s…Then you had all the clubs, Casablanca – now that was a place to be.”

“It’s definitely important to have community around you, you gotta’ have stability in some part of your life.” “It was important for me to mix with my own people…”

“You get on with life and grow up a little bit and then you just adapt to things.”