St Ann’s, The End of an EraIn the late 1960s an area of Nottingham known as St Anns was set for demolition. This involved the wholesale clearance of houses, shops, pubs, churches and businesses. Most of the houses were built in the mid 1800s and of very poor quality, having no internal toilets or bathrooms, poor sanitation and damp problems. The process of demolition meant that upwards of 30,000 people would be rehoused in different parts of the city. Typical of this era, what

Alice Fulton

the capacity to embrace this past and to see wholly afresh what was once familiar and unremarked

biographies and a collection of the humorous Christmas cards drawn by Gordon Moodey

Elias Farkouh – Three short stories Creation

Patricia Powell was born in Jamaica

just the way things are

People are depicted as souls – as in these lines about a woman shoring herself up to enter her own house: ‘Not polite to barge in

Miklos Radnoti translated from the Hungarian by Stephen Capus

say that it is we who inhabit their future

Pembrokeshire is a literal and figurative touchstone

family and illness

Banipal No 26 includes Books in Brief