Crippled Collection

Variety Theatre, Dr. Walford Bodie
Dr. Walford Bodie 1869 - 1939, One of the most famed and controversial Music Hall performers of his day. Known as the Electrical Wizzard

WW2 Aircraft - A Spitfire and Heinkel 111K
WW2 - Engagement in the air between a German Heinkel 111K long-range bomber and an RAF Spitfire, which has secured a hit. Date: circa 1941

Dickens / Christmas Carol
Bob Cratchit with Tiny Tim, his crippled youngest son

Dickens / Christmas Carol
Bob Cratchit with Tiny Tim, his crippled youngest son

John Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission. Blind and Crippled Girls making artificial flowers. John Grooms vision for orphaned and disabled girls

St Andrews Home for Crippled Children, Hayling Island, Hampshire (1917-1921). Date: circa 1920s

St Nicholas Home for Crippled Children, West Byfleet, Surre
A group of children in the garden at the St Nicholas Home for Crippled Children, West Byfleet. Several hold dolls, one carries a pair of crutches. The home was run by the Waifs and Strays Society

Launch - Cromer Lifeboat
The return of the Cromer lifeboat after assisting a crippled trawler to port

France. Guard of National Convention (center), French Grenad
French Revolution (1789-1799). Guard of National Convention (center), French Grenadier Guard (left) and crippled (right). Colored engraving. 19th century

Bradford School for Deaf and Disabled Children
Children, some in wheelchairs, others sitting on buses, outside the City of Bradfords special school for what were then referred to as crippled and physically defective children

Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, St. Louis Missouri
Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children (now Shriners Children's St. Louis), St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Bradstock Lockett Hospital Home
Girls, one holding a crutch, and staff in a dormitory at the Hospital Home - sometimes referred to as the Home for Crippled Children - opened by the Waifs and Strays Society in 1902 at Southport

Members of the Guild of the Poor Brave Things established to help crippled and otherwise handicapped youngsters learn crafts and trades, seen in their workshop at the training school of the guild

Representation of Charity - Money for a poor crippled boy
A moral postcard depicting Charity as two smartly-dressed young girls offer some coins to a poor, crippled young boy with crutches, sat at the side of the street. Date: 1909

One-legged sweeper at Chancery-Lane, London circa 1850s

Joseph Johnson - crippled sailor begging
Joseph Johnson or Black Joe, wounded veteran merchant seaman, wearing his Nelson ship hat. He earned his living as a Regular Chaunter singing songs such as Storm and The British Seamans Praise 1815

Street Trade seller - toys
William Liston from Glasgow, served under the Duke of York in Holland, where on the 6th of October 1799, he lost his right arm and left leg and his place in the army

Cripples Home and industrial School for Girls 1900
Cripples Home in Marylebone Road, photograph showing girls doing needlework. Date: 1900

Street trader, selling mouse traps
Street trader with a wooden leg selling mouse traps. Date: circa 19th century

Duchess of York talking to Crippled Cubs - Edinburgh
Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 1900-2002) talking to Crippled Cubs - Edinburgh during a great display by 17, 000 children drawn from the Boys Brigade, Girl Guides

Memorial Home for Crippled Children, Rochdale, Lancashire
Small children stand outside the Memorial Home for Crippled Children at Rochdale. The home, built in the arts and crafts style, was founded in 1913 by Walter Scott in memory of his wife, Ellen

Bradstock Lockett Hospital Home, Southport
The Hospital Home - sometimes then referred to as the Home for Crippled Children - opened by the Waifs and Strays Society in 1902 at St Annes Road, Marshside, Southport, Lancashire Date: Circa 1921

King George V, Queen Mary & crippled boy in Yorkshire
King George V and Queen Mary pictured during a visit to Yorkshire in July 1912, shaking hands with Ambrose John Rowe, at a review of 8000 children in Clifton Park, Rotherham, South Yorkshire

Inmates of John Grooms Orphanage for Maimed and Crippled Girls at Clacton-on-Sea. Groom, a London engraver and evangelical preacher

Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be blind and wet
Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be a blind beggar singing for your supper/lodging in the rain... Date: circa 1904

Battle of Trafalgar
The Belleisle crippled but unconquered

Disabled Children in London Going to School by Ambulance
An ambulance provided by the London School Board takes what were then referred to as crippled children to school. Date: early 1900s

Life of the Young Tobias byFrancesco Granacci (1469-1543)
Francesco Granacci (1469-1543). Italian painter. Life of the Young Tobias. Detail. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

St Nicholas Home, Pyrford, Surrey - Girls Sewing
Two girls engaged in drawn thread work at the St Nicholas Home for crippled children at Pyrford, near Woking, Surrey. The home was run by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: Date unknown

Samuel Horsey - beggar 1803
Samuel Horsey, a beggar, requented around Charing Cross, London. Date: 1803

Dartmouth Home for Crippled Boys, Blackheath
Frontage of the Dartmouth Home for Crippled Boys, Blackheath. Date: circa 1909

Heritage Craft Schools, Chailey, Sussex
Inmates of the Heritage Craft Schools for crippled boys at Chailey, East Sussex. The scantily clad boys are engaged in various craft activities outside a thatched building

St Johns Home, Kemp Town, Brighton, was a seaside home for convalescent and crippled children. Date: circa 1907

A Womans place is the Home.. Shows two young women in shawls, (mill girls?), an elderly mother and a crippled father. Caption reads, Who will then earn the Daily bread? Date: 1909

John Grooms Home at Sekforde Street, London
John Groom and the Afflicted, Blind and Crippled Workers at the home he founded for their care on Sekforde Street, Clerkenwell. Date: Date unknown

NCH Home, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
A sister and some so-called crippled children go off for a drive at the National Childrens Home, Chipping Norton. Date: Date unknown

Workroom at Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission
Blind, Maimed and Crippled Girls at making artificial flowers at John Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission. Groom, a London engraver and evangelical preacher

One-armed flower-makers at John Grooms training home
A uniformed group of one-armed girls, described as expert flower makers, at the industrial training home run by John Groom for afflicted, blind and crippled girls

Aid to Russia fails to help
Despite these wonderful crutches that my Samaritan friends have given me, I still can t make any progress. Satirical comment on American

Surgery Cures Handicap
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: crippled man reconstructed by skillful surgeon

Peter Heals
He cures a man crippled from birth

Escaping from a Sub
Escaping from a crippled submarine is easy when you know how : you simply lift the convenient manhole cover, disregard the water pressure, and away you go !

Paris Streetfolk C16
Paris beggars, one of them crippled but there doesn t seem much wrong with the two others

Wounded Soldiers / Callot
The human cost of war. The crippled and wounded - the legless and armless are given alms. Soup is dished out from a cauldron in the street

Peter and John
Apostles Peter and John, at the Gate Beautiful at Jerusalem, heal a man who has been crippled all his days

Cripple Healed
Jesus heals a crippled man at the Pool of Bethesda, in Jerusalem

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