Maureen Cartwright

Transcript:

Main themes covered: Housing, community, immigration, unemployment, owning a business

00:00 – 04:00 General introduction

04:00 – 11:00 Changes to the city between 1950s and 1980s. Housing, strikes, Thatcher, steelworks, entering pub business

11:30 – 22:00 Difficulties of running a pub, immigration to Sheffield, and moving area.

22:00 – 23:30 Changes to pub scene and in running a pub. Decision to write book.

23:30 – 41:00 Information about book [Ring of Steel]. What it is about, why it was written. Draws on experiences of living in Sheffield.

41:00 – 49:00 Impact of deindustrialisation and collapse of steelworks

49:00 – 58:30 Changes to the local community in the 1980s

58:30 – 1:06:30 Family life and decision to stay in Sheffield

1:06:30 – 1:15:30 Impact of immigration on the city

1:15:30 - General memories of the period

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