The Stories

This is an online collection of 177 digital stories made in Bristol, England. The most recent story was made in March 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 Bridge Too Far
Matt

A Bristol Tour 2006
Jane Bradley

A City Garden
Katie White

A Commuter's tale
Laura Gardner

A graduate’s tale
Chad

A Henbury Plan
Liz Clarke

A Mosquito in Easton
Reethah Desai

A Pig Named George
Maia and Candice

A Remarkable Corner of Bristol
Lawrence Westland

A Roman Adventure
Oli and Rachel

A Sum of Many Parts
Heather Barham

A Tale of Two Giants
John Derrick

A Tale of Two Sisters
Jo Hall

A Wooden Bench
Dave Drew

An Idylic Retreat
Pamela

An Ordinary Day in St Pauls
Stephen Russell

Annie’s Story
Annie Thompson

Art Story
Jonathan

Artists First
Sarah and Kathy

Ashton Court
Jackie Winchester

Asperger’s
Dayne Lenton

Balloonist
Philip Clarke

Barber
Junior

Bedminster, Bedminster, Bedminster
Amanda Headley-White

Bernice's story
Bernice

Between
Anna Searle

Birth
Nicky Brown

Birth by Fire
Roxana Freeman

Blagdon
Mark Chamberlain

Blaise Castle and Me
Ingrid Jones

Book Project
Sarah Maude

Bristol Beauty
Sarah Najariani

Bristol Has Changed My Life.
Ariel Rumeo

Bristol Princess..?
Maithreyi Nandakumar

Bristol Uncovered
Catalina Sanroman

Bristol, more than an English City
Sandra Gil Cueco

Bristol, Slavery and I
Marius Aznar

Building Futures
Liz

Burbujas
Nathan Hughes

Carnival
Kate Delaney

Caves
Heath Bunting

College Green
Maia

Coming to Bristol
Chandra K Prasad

Common Ground
David Drake

Controlled Creativity
Mark Adams

Crash!
Ruth Jacobs

Daily Commuting
Derrick Anderson

Daynight
Taran Burns

Dean Lane Pit - 100 year commemoration
Southville Heritage Project

Despite My Fears
Samantha Parker

Dinosaur in my garden
Alan Osbourne

Discovering Snuff Mills
Catharine Lake

Do You Remember?
Kamini Gupta

Domino Days
Cleo Lake

Dr Loo and the Unexpected Beginning
Grant

Dreams and Memories
Jacky Long

Easton, Easton
Abdullah Sharif

Ena's Story
Ena McFarlane

Fairies
Mike Stuart

Female Priest
Anne Farmer

Fencing in Bristol
Tim Ewin

Finding a Local
Alison Wells

Finding Delshad
Delshad Mageed

Fowl Play
Lesley Belgium and Knowle West Media Centre

Free
Taran Burns

Friends
James Edwards

From Hartcliffe to Henbury
Kevin Parsons

Gardener's World meets Time Team
Roy Gallop

Ghost Ship
Kate Barker

Gloucester Road
Paddy Uglow

Graffiti
Damos Santanos

Great Expectations
Keith

Green Lines
Jude English

Haldon's Story
Haldon Downer

Hartcliffe Ways
Paige and Millissa

Hassan
Andy Council

Henbury Old and New
Helen Boal

History Repeats Itself
Nicky Davies

Homeground
Jane Sallis

Homes for Heroes
Mike

How America got its name
Ian Kerr and Ruth Jacobs

How Do We Know Each Other?
Lia Yau

How I Lost My Hands
Annie

Iron Beach
Alan May

Iva's Story
Iva Williams

Jack Mundy - Artist
Jack Mundy

Jacobs Wells Road
Martin Rieser

Journey in the Woods
Lys

Junior’s story
Junior

Just Walking
A Holdom

Kernow Forever
Noel Goodwin

Lawrence
Lawrence

Life Changes
Karron Chaplin and Knowle West Media Centre

Life over the Atlantic
Princess Campbell

Lost in Transition
Ella Bissett Jonshon

Lunch in Bristol (Almoço em Bristol)
Harriet Brennan

M32, A Sentimental Journey
Sarwat Siddiqui

Making a Difference
Lisa Rake

Mark’s digital story
Mark

Mining in Bedminster
Christine Hodgson, Doreen Cripps and Betty Morris

Mother Granma
Alison Farrar

Moving Story
Lindy Clark

Mr. Amir Ahamed's story
Amir Ahamed

Mr. Harindar Singh's story
Mr. Harindar Singh

Mrs Gurdial Kaur's story
Gurdial Kaur

Mrs Kanta Nandwari's story
Kanta Nandwari

My Childhood Memories
Colin Griffin

My Family and the Great Engineer
Pete Williams

My Graffiti Tour
Zoe Richards

My Holiday Adventure
Laura Hamilton

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

My Roman Villa
Charlie

One Week in January - the Walk To Work story
Sally

Onesy Twosey Threesy
Cynthia

Painter
Barrington Tabb

Painting Life
Peter Sutton

Prefab Story
Dave Drew

Prefabs
Doreen Hancock

Putting Places in Place
Penny Evans

Relections as seen through the Eyes of a Pensioner
Mike

Riding Home
Becky Dix

Riding with Ghandi
Bhupi Bowri

Roses from a Stranger
Beth Trimmer

Sandola's Story
Sandola Downer

Sasha’s Shoes
Sasha

Save R Trees
Lorna Obunike

Shed Heaven
Eileen Haste

Silencing the Dog
Jon Wisbey

Silt - a story of dock mud
John Derrick

Snapshot Story
Brenda Cook

Sounds on a Boat
Anne Hooper

Space Boy
Dave Morgan-Davies

Speech
Michal

St Augustine's Parade
Liz Milner

Subvertising
Jeff

Swan Keeper
Rich Rankin

Swan Song
Phillip Walker

Swimming
Paul Sullivan

The Adventures of Dr Loo - Invasion of Cirencester
Grant

The Bedminster Dragon
Angus and Francis

The Black History Lesson
Zack Henry

The Boat that Moves Me
Aikaterini Gegisian

The Burly Hindu
Bhupi Bowri

The Caring Magician
Asma Ahmad

The Cube
Tomoko Takahashi

The Curse of the Kohinoor diamond
Tajinder Dhami

The Demon Barber of Bedminster
Paul Matson

The Engineer's Tale
Ian Kerr

The Floating Woman
Amanda Price

The Home Land
Ras Selassie

The Laundrette
Lisa Yardley

The Meridian Phoenix
Martin Rieser

The New Brunel
Andy King

The Pioneer
Harry Hibberd

The Returning Tourist
Julian Rush

The Ribbon Project
Hannah Godfrey

The Slider
Anna Farthing

The Story
Pawel Gladysz

The Stranger
Danny Lam

The successful drummer
Lloyd Wilson

This is a story of Friendship
Anna and Ahmet

This is Bristol
Chris Kieth

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

Truth
Paddy Uglow

Under the Bridge
Terryl Bacon

Victoria Square
Martin Rieser

Walking on Dundry Hill
Barbara

Waterthoughts
Jude English

Wedding Threads
Ralph Juergen Colmar

What could have been
Louis

What Was!
Doreen Hancock

What's Going On?
Charlie Williams

What's your name?
Ruth Jacobs

Who am I?
Charlene Price

Why Bristol?
Liz Milner

Yolanda's story
Yolanda

Young, Gifted and Talented
Jehenelle Blackwood

 

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