by Wendy Milne | 19th December, 2024 | Ilfracombe Community Stories, News
Shajeev speaks about his childhood, particularly schooling and how his school was an example of a colonial legacy. He had a fantastic time and considers it a very important part of his identity. University and his studies were dipped into next, along with discussions...
by Wendy Milne | 19th December, 2024 | Ilfracombe Community Stories, News
Mark speaks about his family many of whom hail from Burma (now Myanmar) as well as recent explorations of heritage that have revealed a connection to France. His father was Anglo-Indian and with Portuguese heritage too. He believes his paternal grandmother was...
by Wendy Milne | 19th December, 2024 | Ilfracombe Community Stories, News
Rachael describes her childhood growing up in Hemel Hempstead, playing in the fields, the daughter of a Romany father and a White British middle class mother whose marriage crossed the social divide. She spoke of her father’s and her own psychic abilities and how her...
by Wendy Milne | 19th December, 2024 | Ilfracombe Community Stories, News
Stephen tells the fascinating story of his father Mervyn who was the founder of Ilfracombe Museum and also its first public library. Mervyn was an intrepid adventurer. He was originally from London but liked Ilfracombe and had family connections in the town. After...
by Wendy Milne | 19th December, 2024 | Ilfracombe Community Stories, News
Cherif was born in Algeria in the 1970s. He reminisces about his early life there by the sea, ‘hanging out on the beaches’, then how school got stressful at the age of 11. At 16 the civil war started. He used to play handball to take his mind of things. He went to...
by Wendy Milne | 19th December, 2024 | Ilfracombe Community Stories, News
Ann talks about her father Thornton Thomas, who was a sporting hero in Ilfracombe, a footballer, who was told that ‘he would never be chosen for a first league team, not because he couldn’t play but because he was black’. Thornton was born in London and it’s...
by Wendy Milne | 11th December, 2024 | Ilfracombe Community Stories, News
Karen discusses growing up in South Africa ‘in a very, very special part of the world across the road from a very beautiful beach. The Cape, where I came from, has a Mediterranean climate. It absolutely was a beautiful place to live and grow up.’ She grew up in...
by Wendy Milne | 8th November, 2024 | Honiton News, Ilfracombe News, News
Honiton and Ilfracombe exhibitions open in November A year and a half of hard work and dedication and at last, an opportunity to share it more widely with you all. Our multicultural history project’s two exhibitions will open in the towns of Honiton and Ilfracombe...
by Wendy Milne | 2nd October, 2024 | Honiton News, Ilfracombe News, News
(Image and research for Thornton Thomas courtesy of Ilfracombe Museum) Today (1st October) sees the start of Black History Month whose theme this year is Reclaiming Narratives marking a major shift towards recognising and correcting the narratives of Black history and...
by Wendy Milne | 29th August, 2024 | News
Media Release 29th August 2024 Ione Maria Rojas appointed as artist for Honiton multicultural history partnership British-Mexican artist, facilitator and food grower Ione Maria Rojas has been appointed as the artist to work on a multicultural history partnership based...
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