Ethan - Greater Manchester

Nine years old Ethan lives in Stockport with his Mum, Dad and Brother, Leo. I’ve got to say, Ethan’s bedroom is probably as big as my one bedroom flat in London. I asked him… If the bedroom was on fire, what one item would you save?

Ethan – I would take my teddy, Fred. Because he’s really cosy and soft, he makes me feel comfortable and helps me get to sleep at night. I won him last year at a summer fate. We had to cover our eyes and take a ticket out of a box. I got Fred’s. Well I also got six others too, but after sleeping with them all on that night, I decided I liked Fred the best.

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Leo - Greater Manchester

Leo is a football crazy, football mad, six years old. He lives with his Mum, Dad and Brother in Stockport. He lives, eats,  breathes football and his position is Left Wing. I believe talented, left footed players are hard to come by – I reckon he’s a star in the making. His team is Manchester City Football club and he would love to play for them. Leo says his favourite player is Teves, because “I think he’s really nice and really good at football”.

I asked Leo… “If your room was on fire, what one item would you save?”…  Leo - I would save my football kit and my ball, because when I have to go and play football I need my kit and without it I wouldn’t be able to play.”                                                                          

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Kathryn & Dom - Greater Manchester

Kathryn a Personal Assistant and Dom a Café manager live in a classic, northern, terraced house in Stockport. The place smacks of an old Lowry painting. The small streets filled with dark, red brick buildings and the occasional plume of smoke disappears from chimneys, into the sky. 

I enter their house and in the words of a young Tracey Barlow ‘leave me alone, I’m going up stairs to listen to me tapes’…  So I climb the steep Victorian stairs, reach their bright little bedroom and grab myself a bit of northern pie.

…I asked them both “If the bedroom was on fire, what one item would you save?”… Kathryn did the talking and said – I’d take the box of photographs from under the bed because they go way back, not just my family and friends but Dom’s too. Then Dom would follow me out with all my jewellery. 

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Bobby - South East London

Peckham - home of the Trotter’s, The Hannah Barry Gallery and the artist, Bobby Dowler . Bobby lives and works in his flat in Peckham and as he puts it, aspires to be a minimalist. He doesn’t get too attached to ’things’ and probably would prefer his bedroom to be clear, much like a blank canvas. However, I think he might have a case of not being able to see the brush stroke for the paint, as I think his room is a definite nod towards minimalism - so calm and intimate, that you want to mess it up a bit, by getting naked and having a paint party.

I asked Bobby… “If your bedroom was on fire, what one item would you save?”…With a deadpan expression, he said  - My Blow-up Doll. But she’s not in the mood for having her photograph taken today. And besides, the guy who I got her from, down my local pub, said I shouldn’t really show her to anyone because her type is particularly rare, so much so, that all women would want to be her, and all men would want to be with her.

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