UK AIDS Quilt 022

This is Quilt 022 of 042 in the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt collection, created during the late 1980's and early 1990's before there was effective treatment for people living with HIV.

UK AIDS Quilt at St PaulsAIDS Quilt UK

The AIDS Quilt Memorial Project

This collection is created in memory of loved ones, friends and family. For some people our archive contains a great deal of information about their lives, for others we hold little, or none.

email aidsquiltuk@gmail.com if you have any information about someone remembered here 

AIDS Quilt 22AIDS Quilt UK

Rev Virgil Hall

022 Josh Marcroft
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Josh Marcroft

'I love you, you were a bastard but beautiful'...listen here and read below from Josh's partner Martin

AIDS Quilt 22 Quilt 022 Josh Marcroft 1, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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Orange was Josh's favourite colour, he was cremated in an orange shirt

AIDS Quilt 22 Quilt 022 Josh Marcroft 2, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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Josh joked he would come back and haunt Martin if he died

AIDS Quilt 22AIDS Quilt UK

Andrew Morrison

022 Dale Robertson Oakes
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Dale Robertson Oakes

When Dale enters a room, 
EVERYONE knows he's arrived...

Dale Robertson Oakes, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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He moves with a dancer's grace, head up and chin leading

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022 Chris Hartley edit
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Chris Hartley

Chris met Vince in a leather bar, 21st November 1981, listen to Vince's story of how they met...

Chris Hartley pg1, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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'You're getting me a lager then? Get to the bar...

Chris Hartley pg2, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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We lived together for almost six years in an open relationship

Chris Hartley pg3, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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Chris taught in a large multi racial school in little Ilford

Chris Hartley pg 4, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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Chris got a confirmed diagnosis the day the UK government launched its 'Iceberg' campaign

Chris Hartley pg 5, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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AIDS took his life, but not his love.

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Colvin

André (Booie)

Booie's family have requested any information we have about him not to be made public.

022 Jerry Davies
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Jerry Davies

Maggie and Alison Crowe of Nottingham made this panel for their cousin Jerry

AIDS Quilt 22 Quilt 022 Jerry Davies, From the collection of: AIDS Quilt UK
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Jerry was an active member of the Metropolitan Community Church in Sydney.

Credits: Story

Many of the quilts we hold have no back up information. If you recognise any names or panels without information please get in touch. email aidsquiltuk@gmail.com

Thank you to the partnership volunteers and members who recorded the letters and stories associated with the panels made for loved ones lost in the early days of the HIV / AIDS epidemic in the 80’s and 90’s. 

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The story featured may in some cases have been created by an independent third party and may not always represent the views of the institutions, listed below, who have supplied the content.
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