'I had to find out who I was from a carrier bag - because I was born mixed race in 1950s Britain'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe Booths supermarket carrier bag held 733 pieces of photocopied paper. The pages detailed the life Phil Frampton never knew.
They contained countless revelations of prejudice, cruelty and compassion shown during a childhood spent in care. But one line, buried in a Barnados report made when he was just 10 days-old, stood out more than most. "Any physical defects or maladies: Half-Caste," it read. READ MORE: Black History Month 2023 - all the events taking place in Greater Manchester READ MORE: "I always felt 'different'.
A DNA test exposed a massive secret about me" Phil was born in 1953 at a home for unmarried mothers in Cornwall run by the Cornish Moral Welfare Society.
Frightened of losing her job his mum, a music teacher from Birmingham, hid her pregnancy from both her school and her parents and ran away.
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