A Survey of Residents of the Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury
…was then able to use this information to help me in follow up investigations. My next port of call was the Find My Past website, where I’ve concentrated my efforts…
…was then able to use this information to help me in follow up investigations. My next port of call was the Find My Past website, where I’ve concentrated my efforts…
…educable and non-educable and provision for children with epilepsy. This is a useful source of information about early definitions. 1898 Committee on Defective and Epileptic Children reported. Recommendations not fully…
…often useful to look to what worked and what did not in the past. Young people sitting in the Guild building Credit: Bristol Archives BRO-39842-P-1(b)-[j] ##cut##{“backgroundcolor”:”#fde28d“,”fontcolor”:”#000000″} References and further reading …
…they left suggests that they were released to allow the preferred oral teachers to be introduced. The photographs I found from this period show the teachers and students who would…
…herself … In the past, wakeful and screamed, feeds herself occasionally, wet at night. Backward speaking, pokes fingers in her eyes, no concentration. Eyes defective, no convulsions, nurse left after…
…boxes. ##cut##{“storyimage”:”2268″,”backgroundcolor”:”#fde28d“,”fontcolor”:”#000000″} Robert ‘Dixie’ Smith was a trade unionist and political activist described as ‘the most cheerful man in the Labour movement’. He campaigned for blind people to learn a…
…fractured his left ankle leaving him with a deformed leg and restricting his mobility consistent with his childhood talipes. When determined, as he could be, he would walk long distances…
at 9am as usual. He has been to London to see his brother and Dr Price.” Arthur’s Last Days and the Family He Left Behind Searching for more information about…
…who had not been brought up in this tradition. It was therefore felt that Guild as now known, should close in 1988. ##cut##{“backgroundcolor”:”Default”,”fontcolor”:”#000000″} After the sale of the Guild building,…
…a copy of the text of the hand-written entry in “Report on Admission” (LMA ref: H29/NF/B/04/02). “Ida Page was decidedly clever as a child. As soon as she began lessons…