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Making a home in maritime London

Vanguard Estate. © NMM

One of my uncles owned a house here, and I stayed with his wife, because my uncle was in Nigeria then. (Grace, originally from Nigeria)

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When we got married… [his parents'] sitting room was to be ours. It was a sitting room-cum-bedroom. We were eating in with his parents. (Maggie, originally from Liverpool)

None of us had bathrooms unless they owned their house. (Jean, from Deptford)

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Connie from Vanguard Estate. © NMM

We squatted in a Nissen hut, down Church Street. (Connie, from Deptford)

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• The 20th century port video gallery
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