Tom Mannay: We've been here over twenty years. I spent most of my life in Grangetown as a boy. When we first got married, we had a room in 69 Clive Street. Wilfred Brook House is there now but it used to be the step houses. We had to go up the steps to go in, and down the stairs inside to the kitchen.

I used to work in the pit in Llangarw, and then in the steelworks in East Moors.

I remember when I was a boy there weren't many coloured faces to be seen in this area. I was one of the few. Now it's very different. There are more Somalis and immigrants in general.

My father was from Liberia in West Africa. He came over here in the merchant navy years ago. He served in the first and second world wars. My mother was from Wolverhampton.

When we first got married, we went to look for a flat. My wife went on her own, and she had the flat. I turned up in the evening, and suddenly it was taken.

Mrs Mannay: I used to work in the cigar factory in North Clive Street when it was open. I used to roll the cheroots. They'd go around in the machine and get picked up. There were two of us on the machine, and I used to work with his sister. I was a bridesmaid at her wedding. That's how we came to meet.