The four families have lived in the same locality, sometimes even the same house, for three or four generations. Three of the four live in a street we shall call Long Street and one in Short Street (not their real names). Not all family members have remained in the area and those who have not been mentioned in the interviews have been excluded from the Family Trees.
Click on the icons to find out more about each family and their family treeAll names are pseudonyms. This was not originally the intention of participants, but recent events have made people fearful of losing their jobs (or even worse) through speaking their minds, a sad reminder of William’s early words in his interview ‘There is no freedom of speech left in this country’
Listen to an extract from William's interview
where he talks about that lack of freedom of speech.
