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Eve Gregory is Professor Emerita in Language and Culture in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has previously conducted a number of ethnographic studies on the intergenerational learning between children, their parents and grandparents in East London,funded by The Leverhulme Trust, the ESRC and The Paul Hamlyn Foundation. This work has been funded by an Emeritus Award of The Leverhulme Trust. It draws upon a lifetime of living in Newham in a family who moved there, like thousands of others, to seek industrial work at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Olga Barradas is a Postdoctoral student in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths. Her doctoral thesis was an ethnographic study of the lives of Portuguese origin families and their aspirations for their children’s education in London. She has contributed to the design of the study as well as interviewing participants and organised collection and presentation of the data.
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Eric Gregory was born in West Ham over seven decades ago and has worked in the Borough of Newham in a variety of jobs all his life. He held a number of posts, including marine rigger, container based operative and docker in the royal docks and at Chobham Farm where he was shop steward during 1970s. Later, he became a volunteer driver for Newham Community Transport and was chair of the committee running it. His contribution to the study has been invaluable; finding participants, explaining the folk knowledge of the area as well as being a fund of knowledge on local history.
Zahir Rafiq is an artist from Rotherham, South Yorkshire. He specialises in a wide variety of creative disciplines including painting, digital art and website development. He has exhibited his work throughout the UK and collaborated in projects with institutes such as Universities.
For the Disappearing Londoners website, Zahir was approached with a brief to compose a design that represented the identities of participants through household objects, graphic art influenced by old family photographs and landmarks in the Newham area, while otherwise keeping the identities of the participants themselves secret.
Zahir's inspiration for the website design was the Queen’s coronation 1953 party invitation that appears in the ‘Harding old family photographs’ and ‘Susan Jones personal photographs’ galleries. The use of red, off-white, blue and the image of the Queen printed in various tones of blues can be clearly identified throughout the website design, which results in a simple layout that the user can easily navigate. For the logo for the website which incorporates the river Thames, Zahir took inspiration from William’s badges.
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Chris Kelly is a photojournalist working mainly in education, health and social services. During the last thirty years she has taken photographs for educational publishers, national and regional charities, and local authorities in London and the south-east of England. She has photographed and exhibited in the UK and other parts of Europe and has published books for east London community organisations.
Ann Williams was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociolinguistics: Universities of Reading, Goldsmiths and Kings London. She has contributed to a number of ethnographic studies on East London families with Eve Gregory. She has provided expert knowledge and assistance with the transcription of interviews for this project.
Finally, our thanks are due to Charly Kimmig for his insightful photographs of the area in which the research has taken place.