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Twenty first century Burngreave is home to people from many different backgrounds and cultures. Some spent their childhood here and tell stories of family life on familiar streets in the area. Others have come here from far away, bringing very different memories of childhood in places such as Jamaica, Yemen and Somalia. You can read and listen to some of these stories, or add one of you own in the section below.
- Hilda Dawson - Growing up in Burngreave Vestry Hall, 1920s and 1930s
- Salwa Al'Hafly - Childhood in Sanaa, Yemen, 1980s
- Gaynor Naylor - My Dad, Albert Naylor, grew up on Verdon Street, 1930s and 1940s
- Collis Beckford - Farm life in Jamaica, 1930s and 1940s
- Mahmoud Brasab - Twenty first century Burngreave as home
- Aislinn Adams - Born in Belfast, 1979
- Asha Ajab - Home life in Burao, Somalia
- Denise Palmer - Growing up in Rotherham with foster parents
- Joe Scarborough - Growing up in Pitsmoor, 1940s
- Gaby Spinks - A sand baby in Ibiza, 1940s
- Shazia Khan - Life on my grandfather's farm in Pakistan, 1980s
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