Once the writers who had been paired with elders from Canning Town Library had written their stories, we organised a day for us to all meet up, with the stories in hand, for the people we had worked with to read through and comment on. There had been a month, sometimes two, in between the initial interviews and the finishing of the stories – so all of the writers and elders present that day had a lovely time catching up since their ‘life chat’, and seeing their lives told creatively. One of the comments we received was:

“I never knew how much I did – what good things people thought of me – till now. Thank you.”

On this particular day, we were joined by the UEL Comms Team.