Listen to the sound clips below to hear personal stories from Newham's crafters. These are taken from oral histories recorded for Close Knit. The full oral histories are stored in Eastside Community Heritage's Hidden Histories archive - please get in touch if you would like to visit us!

Voices

Play the soundclips below to hear our close knit stories

If you would like to read more on crafting heritage, in 199 Julia wrote her dissertation on The Ford Sewing Machinist Strike of 1968. You can find it at The Feminist Library, at The Sojourner Truth Centre 161 Summer Road London SE 15 6JL (tel: 0207. 2610879).