I asked Jakes, nan, to write me a list of place that she feels are significant to her growing up, I felt this would help me to get a proper feel of her younger self before I knew her. She gave me several houses that were, luckily, 5 minutes walk away from her home now! Amongst the houses I was able to go to for this shoot was; the house she was born in, the house she first lived in, the building where she had her first job at the age of 15 as a hairdresser and also the bus stops that we used to catch the bus to school. Unfortunately, a lot of the buildings are quite different now, one of them is now a PDSA charity shop. However, the preschool she attended is still the same building which I found to be lovely.
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