Reading prayers from the Torah, Lag B’Omer, Stamford Hill, Hackney, 2013

Irish family emigrating to Canada, 1966

The Finnegan family from Dublin on board the Empress of England, about to leave Liverpool for Toronto. Mr Finnegan and his wife had thirteen children, ten of whom are in the photograph. Their other three children were due to join them at a later date. Mr Finnegan, a fitter and welder, had as yet no job arranged in Canada.

WW2 commando boots of Yaacov Schloss

Yaacov Schloss was born in Gelsenkirchen Westphalia in 1924. His parents were murdered in Auschwitz in September 1942. Following the outbreak of war, he travelled around Europe before joining the British Army (Pioneer Corps) in Algiers around 1944.

In 1945 he joined the Jewish 3 troop 10 Commando unit, where he served until 1947.

He lived the rest of his life in North West London, known to all as Jack Scott.

La Salette, Manningham, Bradford, 1987

Dancing to steel pan at the annual La Salette street party outside the Dominica Association. La Salette is a Catholic feast day widely celebrated in Dominica where the majority of the population are Catholic. I chose this photograph as this street party has been a regular celebration in Bradford since I moved to the city and lived close to DUKA in the mid 1980s.