Come help us remember.
There is more than one
way into a story.
A photograph you recognise. A street name you remember. A voice you can help turn into words. Make yourself at home.
Photographs
Which team wore pale blue?
Do you recognise the team, the ground, or the occasion? Tell us how you know, and distinguish what you remember from what you are unsure about.
Photographs
The story behind the BEREC shirts
What can you tell us about this team and its shirts? A programme, team list or another photograph could help establish the occasion.
Photographs
Can you help read the handwriting?
There is handwriting across this family portrait. Can you help read it or explain its context? Please do not guess identities.
Start with your neighbourhood.
Banjul through timeHalf Die: Ground Made and Remade
Half Die is best approached as a history of water, labour, building knowledge, migration, epidemic memory, and repeated redevelopment. Public evidence supports several layers, but it does not support one final origin story for the name or a precise present-day boundary.
Walk into the chapterJolof Town: Artisans, Movement, and a Contested Name
Jolof Town appears in the record as Melville Town, an artisan quarter, a commercial district, and a civic ward. The origin of the name is disputed. No historical source should be used to assign an ethnicity to present residents or to draw a modern boundary.
Walk into the chapterSoldier Town: From Garrison Ground to African Civic Life
Soldier Town's name records Bathurst's military origins, but its history quickly exceeds the garrison. Reclaimed land, Liberated African settlement, churches, households, renters, skilled work, petitioning, and civic association all belong in the chapter.
Walk into the chapterPortuguese Town: Atlantic Commerce and Layered Belonging
Portuguese Town connects Banjul to Gorée, Saint-Louis, Sierra Leone, Luso-African commerce, Liberated African migration, and the waterfront. The label describes a historical formation, not a single ancestry shared by everyone who later lived there.
Walk into the chapterYour first few minutes can help.
Choose a way to contribute. There is room for careful listeners, sharp eyes, patient reviewers and people who simply remember.