The Stories

This is an online collection of 201 digital stories made in Bristol, England. The most recent story was made in July 2008.

Everybody has a story to tell, and through technology people can now relate these stories to a wider audience using their own voice and images. Many of these stories are about peoples’ experiences of Bristol, what brought us here, and what it is like to live and work here.

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A Holdom
Just Walking

Abdullah Sharif
Easton, Easton

Aikaterini Gegisian
The Boat that Moves Me

Alan May
Metal Beach

Alan Osbourne
Dinosaur in my garden

Alison Farrar
Mother Granma

Alison Wells
Finding a Local

Amanda Headley-White
Bedminster, Bedminster, Bedminster

Amanda Price
The Floating Woman

Amir Ahamed
Mr. Amir Ahamed’s story

Andy Council
Hassan

Andy King
The New Brunel

Angus and Francis
The Bedminster Dragon

Anna and Ahmet
This is a story of Friendship

Anna Farthing
Paul Robeson: To be Afrikan or Not To Be

Anna Farthing
The Slider

Anna Farthing
Paul Robeson: Young Man / Ol’ Man

Anna Farthing
Paul Robeson: The Roles we Play

Anna Farthing
Paul Robeson: My Name is Paul

Anna Farthing
Paul Robeson: Desert Island Disc

Anna Searle
Between

Anne Farmer
Female Priest

Anne Hooper
Sounds on a Boat

Annie
How I Lost My Hands

Annie Thompson
Annie’s Story

Anon
A Commuter’s tale

Anon
A Journey from Somalia to Horfield

Anon, Zimbabwe
Immigration Story

Ariel Rumeo
Bristol Has Changed My Life.

Asma Ahmad
The Caring Magician

Barbara
Walking on Dundry Hill

Barrington Tabb
Painter

Becky Dix
Riding Home

Bernice
Bernice’s story

Beth Trimmer
Roses from a Stranger

Bhupi Bowri
Riding with Ghandi

Bhupi Bowri
The Burly Hindu

Brenda Cook
Snapshot Story

Catalina Sanroman
Bristol Uncovered

Catharine Lake
Discovering Snuff Mills

Chad
A graduate’s tale

Chandra K Prasad
Coming to Bristol

Charlene Price
Who am I?

Charlie
My Roman Villa

Charlie Williams
What’s Going On?

Cheryl Martin and Knowle West Media Centre
Through the eye of my digital camera

Chris Kieth
This is Bristol

Christine Hodgson, Doreen Cripps and Betty Morris
Mining in Bedminster

Cleo Lake
Domino Days

Colin Dean
Long Stay Hospitals like Stoke Park - My Investigation

Colin Griffin
My Childhood Memories

Cynthia
Onesy Twosey Threesy

Damos Santanos
Graffiti

Danny Lam
The Stranger

Dave and Adam
Kingsfield Past and Present (Teacher Style…)

Dave and Adam
Kingsfield Past and Present

Dave Drew
A Wooden Bench

Dave Drew
Prefab Story

Dave Morgan-Davies
Space Boy

David Drake
Common Ground

Dayne Lenton
Asperger’s

Delshad Mageed
Finding Delshad

Denise Britt and Knowle West Media Centre
My journey after the knock at the door

Derrick Anderson
Daily Commuting

Doreen Hancock
What Was!

Doreen Hancock
Prefabs

Eileen Haste
Shed Heaven

Ella Bissett Jonshon
Lost in Transition

Ena McFarlane
Ena’s Story

Forward
A Zimbabwean living in Bristol

Grant
Dr Loo and the Unexpected Beginning

Grant
The Adventures of Dr Loo - Invasion of Cirencester

Gurdial Kaur
Mrs Gurdial Kaur’s story

Haldon Downer
Haldon’s Story

Hannah Godfrey
The Ribbon Project

Harriet Brennan
Lunch in Bristol (Almoço em Bristol)

Harry Hibberd
The Pioneer

Heath Bunting
Caves

Heather Barham
A Sum of Many Parts

Helen
My Bristol

Helen Boal
Henbury Old and New

Helen, Jade, Zoe, Dave and Adam
Kingsfield Bristol Stories (The Making of…)

Ian Kerr
The Engineer’s Tale

Ian Kerr and Ruth Jacobs
How America got its name

Ingrid Jones
Blaise Castle and Me

Iva Williams
Iva’s Story

Jack Mundy
Jack Mundy - Artist

Jackie Winchester
Ashton Court

Jacky Long
Dreams and Memories

James Edwards
Friends

Jane Bradley
A Bristol Tour 2006

Jane Sallis
Homeground

Jeff
Subvertising

Jehenelle Blackwood
Young, Gifted and Talented

Jo Hall
A Tale of Two Sisters

John Derrick
A Tale of Two Giants

John Derrick
Silt - a story of dock mud

Jon Wisbey
Silencing the Dog

Jonathan
Art Story

Jude English
Green Lines

Jude English
Waterthoughts

Julian Rush
The Returning Tourist

Junior
Barber

Junior
Junior’s story

Kamini Gupta
Do You Remember?

Kanta Nandwari
Mrs Kanta Nandwari’s story

Karron Chaplin and Knowle West Media Centre
Life Changes

Kate Barker
Ghost Ship

Kate Delaney
Carnival

Katie White
A City Garden

Keith
Great Expectations

Kevin Parsons
From Hartcliffe to Henbury

Laura Hamilton
My Holiday Adventure

Lawrence
Lawrence

Lawrence Westland
A Remarkable Corner of Bristol

Lesley Belgium and Knowle West Media Centre
Fowl Play

Lia Yau
How Do We Know Each Other?

Lindy Clark
Moving Story

Lisa Rake
Making a Difference

Lisa Yardley
The Laundrette

Liz
Building Futures

Liz Clarke
A Henbury Plan

Liz Milner
Why Bristol?

Liz Milner
St Augustine’s Parade

Lloyd Wilson
The successful drummer

Lorna Obunike
Save R Trees

Louis
What could have been

Lys
Journey in the Woods

Maia
College Green

Maia and Candice
A Pig Named George

Maithreyi Nandakumar
Bristol Princess..?

Maria
This is my home

Marius Aznar
Bristol, Slavery and I

Mark
Mark’s digital story

Mark Adams
Controlled Creativity

Mark Chamberlain
Blagdon

Martin Munemo
Zimbabwe Relief

Martin Rieser
The Meridian Phoenix

Martin Rieser
Victoria Square

Martin Rieser
Jacobs Wells Road

Matt
A Bridge Too Far

Michal
Speech

Mike
Reflections as seen through the Eyes of a Pensioner

Mike
Homes for Heroes

Mike Stuart
Fairies

Miriam Casal Madinabeita
Paul Robeson: Aim High

Miriam Casal Madinabeita
Paul Robeson: Those Were the Days

Misfits Theatre Company
Misfits in rehearsal for Forgotten

Morgan
MDC - International

Mr. Harindar Singh
Mr. Harindar Singh’s story

Nathan Hughes
Burbujas

Nicky Brown
Birth

Nicky Davies
History Repeats Itself

Noel Goodwin
Kernow Forever

Oli and Rachel
A Roman Adventure

Paddy Uglow
Truth

Paddy Uglow
Gloucester Road

Paige and Millissa
Hartcliffe Ways

Pamela
An Idylic Retreat

Paul Matson
The Demon Barber of Bedminster

Paul Sullivan
Swimming

Pawel Gladysz
The Story

Penny Evans
Putting Places in Place

Penny Lepisz
Stoke Park Hospital - The Heydays

Penny Lepisz
Stoke Park Hospital - The Latter Years

Pete Williams
My Family and the Great Engineer

Peter Sutton
Painting Life

Philip Clarke
Balloonist

Phillip Walker
Swan Song

Princess Campbell
Life over the Atlantic

Ralph Juergen Colmar
Wedding Threads

Ras Selassie
The Home Land

Reethah Desai
A Mosquito in Easton

Rich Rankin
Swan Keeper

Roxana Freeman
Birth by Fire

Roy Gallop
Gardener’s World meets Time Team

Ruth Jacobs
Crash!

Ruth Jacobs
What’s your name?

Sadie Smith
Paul Robeson: Inspiration

Sadie Smith
Paul Robeson: Paul Speaks My Language

Sadola Downer
Sadola’s Story

Sally
One Week in January - the Walk To Work story

Samantha Parker
Despite My Fears

Sandra Gil Cueco
Bristol, more than an English City

Sarah and Kathy
Artists First

Sarah Maude
Book Project

Sarah Najariani
Bristol Beauty

Sarwat Siddiqui
M32, A Sentimental Journey

Sasha
Sasha’s Shoes

Southville Heritage Project
Dean Lane Pit - 100 year commemoration

Stephen Russell
An Ordinary Day in St Pauls

Tajinder Dhami
The Curse of the Kohinoor diamond

Taran Burns
Daynight

Taran Burns
Free

Terryl Bacon
Under the Bridge

Tim Ewin
Fencing in Bristol

Tomoko Takahashi
The Cube

Yolanda
Yolanda’s story

Zack Henry
The Black History Lesson

Zoe
A Century of Granny Moore

Zoe Richards
My Graffiti Tour

 

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