Places carry meanings for people. These often change over time. When we tell our stories we may remember feeling part of a place, feeling alienated from it or something of both. In this project we bring together pictures, words, film and theatre drawn from Peterborough residents’ stories.
Peterborough people’s life stories connect them to a wide array of places. These range from an impoverished childhood on the outskirts of Los Angeles to the choir stalls of the Anglican Cathedral in Singapore; from tied cottages in the Fens or the food factories of Spalding to the solid, respectable houses of Oundle and Stamford; through fairgrounds in Kent to Poznan in Poland, Bovino in Italy, Vilnius in Lithuania, Goa in India and rural and urban parts of many other countries, among them Mozambique, Pakistan, Peru, Uganda and Hong Kong…
