Guess who came to dinner?

A group of mixed race children from the Pollack family pose for a snapshot Photograph: PR company handout

Baldie Dixon, originally from St Elizabeth in Jamaica. He later moved to Birmingham and married Janet Todd. Baldie: 'I think white girls, they went through a hard time when they were with a black man. I remember my wife would come home and I'd find her crying, because people called her names when she was out with my children' Photograph: PR company handout

The Pollack family stand together for a photograph. Maureen Pollack: 'An old lady fetched the police to me, because I was going out with a black man, and they said, "You've got to be a certain age to go out with a black man"' Photograph: PR company handout

Teresa Archer and her daughter, Jacqueline. Teresa: 'Lots of Irish girls married black men. The Irish had their rough times before the black people came here' Photograph: PR company handout

Morris, Bev and Jacqueline Archer sit huddled together. Jacqueline: 'I don't think, even in my teen years, I defined myself by my race ... I never sort of put myself out there as a black woman or a "half-caste" girl' Photograph: PR company handout

Baldie Dixon, Janet and children sit together for a photograph. Irene Raymond (nee Dixon): 'Even though my mom's white and dad's black, I don't think "in-between" ... There isn't anything about me that's white, regardless of how I might look or how I speak; I am black' Photograph: PR company handout

The Dixon family standing together for a family portrait. Deline Dixon: 'I told my dad he borne me into a no-man's land, because he couldn't tell me what it was to be mixed race ... there was nobody before me to tell me either' Photograph: PR