Oral histories /Mary Hughes

Coming to London from Ireland as a young girl . Leaving her fiancee before their wedding.  Getting into the Gateways.  The welcome at the Gateways from Gina and Smithy.  

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• And we came to London in 1952 when it wasn’t particularly, um, cool to be Irish, 0

  Coming to London from Ireland as a young girl

• just couldn’t face it because I had feelings that I was gay 1:20

  Leaving her finnance before their wedding.

• I was, I was looking for a way into the gateways.4:36

  Getting into the Gateways

• She used to sit there with a a cigarette holder6:31

  The welcome at the Gateways from Gina and Smithy.