WE ARE NOTTS
In Spring 2025 Rachel Carter and the Legacy Makers were invited to take over BBC Radio Nottinghams, ‘We Are Notts’ programme. Click on the images to hear each of the programme chapters.
Introduction
Artist Rachel Carter will introduce the programme along with Legacy Makers Ethel Anderson and Isalyn Martin.
Chapter 1 - Nottingham’s textile heritage
Hear clips from archive recordings of lace makers.
Rachel discusses her Framework Knitting and Lace making ancestors
The cotton spinning mills and Bright Ideas Nottingham’s heritage project.
Meeting the Legacy Makers
Discovering the Transatlantic trafficking of Africans
Chapter 2 - Challenging the 5%
Looking back on our silent protest in 2022 and Challenging the 5%
Starting the project to create the sculpture design
Finding the models through Dancing
Fundraising for the sculpture
Chapter 3 - Challenging the 5%
Reflecting on the unveiling event for the scale model in 2022
Hear from the models; Judy Robinson and Legacy Maker Louise Garvey
Creating the statue with textiles and digital technologies.
Chapter 4 - A walk around the sculpture
Discover the meanings behind some of the elements of the sculpture
The braids made by women from across the Midlands
The hidden messages “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister”
The apron pocket and the journey ‘Jonny’ cake
Footprints in the soil, walking in the footsteps of our ancestors
Chapter 5 - The Legacy Makers
Hear from some of the Legacy Makers from the project, recording at the National Justice Museum.
Hyacinth Banton - Honouring and celebrating our ancestors
Viv Oliver - Celebrating women
Winifred Thomas - Education
Fatou Marong - Local history
