More Than A Bundle Story

When my parents first moved to London communication with the homeland was never that easy. There wasn’t a phone in the accommodation they stayed in and neither did my grandparents have a phone in…

I think I was around 8 years old walking through Trent Park, and from a distance I could hear a familiar tune played on the darbuka. We couldn’t see anyone around, but mum paused…

Whilst my colleagues came to London for a better future, my arrival was for survival, an escape, a flee from more than what was an unhappy marriage. Today there are laws for marrying your…

Amongst those who travelled abroad to meet the labour needs of Western Europe were many who travelled from Turkey and Cyprus to work in textile factories. They were faced with a foreign environment, no…

When words of conversations are many years lived.  Arrived at London in October 1971 with two other friends, the 24-year-old Mehmet Amca was keen to find the factory he was assigned to work at.…

Historically, dating back to the Ottoman Empire the Coffee Houses have been a great importance as a place where the production of traditional folk culture were narrated and displayed as well as public education…

Erol Amca had a factory in the East end of London that staffed over 40 workers, which now occupies as a trendy pop-up studio. This is the factory I spent several school holidays racing…

She invited me to her room telling me she had a surprise. Then handed over a plate as I sat on the divan. At the time where Turkish food was so limited,‘Where did you…

Nalan Pekyorur – The Women Who Raised Each Other Shines warmth and positivity, paving the way with nothing but encouragement and strength for her two daughters. The common belief at the time with families…