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East Midlands Oral History Archive
A woman recalls how she left Powys in Wales during the 1920s and came to live and work in Leicester.
An Irish woman describes her boredom at home in Ireland and her determination to leave to look for work in England during the Second World War.
An Antiguan woman talks about leaving Antigua in the 1950s to get work in England. She describes the posters she saw advertising work and how she was asked to come to Leicester by a friend.