Disabled Collection

Highwood School, Brentwood, Essex
The administration block at Highwood (or High Wood) School, Brentwood, Essex. The school was opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 for the treatment of ophthalmia in children

Douglas Bader - Flying Ace of WW2
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader (1910-1982) - Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. A postcard produced for the (Royal)

Bethany Childrens Home, Kinver, Staffordshire
Residents of the Bethany home for disabled children which was located on the Hyde at Kinver, Staffordshire. Many of the boys are holding crutches

Helen Keller with her Great Dane
Helen Keller (1880-1968) born blind deaf mute. Thanks to her governess she overcame these handicaps, studied and created in 1921 the American Foundation for the Blind. Pictured here on the S.S

Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex
Aerial view of Highwood (or High Wood) Hospital, Brentwood, Essex, used for the care of children with tuberculosis. The site was originally opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 for

Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex
Children with tuberculosis at Highwood (or High Wood) Hospital, Brentwood, Essex. Beds were placed on the balconies to provide sun and fresh air

No. 1 War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
Rear view of the entrance to the No. 1 War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire - the First World War deployment of Reading Union Workhouse. Several uniformed soldiers can be seen, one on crutches

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

Armless painter Charles Felu
Belgian painter Charles Francois Felu (1830-1900), born without arms. He was taught at an early age by his mother to draw and paint with his feet. Shown here painting in Antwerp Gallery. Date: C.1895

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

Sir Douglas Bader playing golf
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader (1910-1982), RAF pilot during the Second World War despite having lost both legs in a crash in 1931

Freak Show poster - Legless Woman
A poster for a freak show exhibit of a legless Englishwoman, Miss Gabriele The English Halfwoman. Postcard from Germany

Barnardos Agra House Home for Incurables, Tunbridge Wells
Barnardos Agra House home for Incurables as physically disabled children were then described, at Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Date: Early 1900s

Caterham Asylum. Surrey - Disabled Childrens Ward
A disabled childrens ward at Caterham Imbeciles Asylum. Like its twin at Leavesden, the asylum was established in 1870 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for Londons sick poor with mental conditions

Pitmen encamped - evicted coal miner and his dwelling
A miner on strike sits despondently outside his makeshift home, his crutch and dog at his side. Due to lengthy strike action resulting from a wage dispute

Survivors from Blucher, Battle of Dogger Bank, WW1
Survivors from the disabled German armoured cruiser SMS Blucher being picked up from the sea by British destroyers during the Battle of Dogger Bank, in the North Sea, First World War

The Hon. Mrs Bowes-Lyon and her children
Mrs Bowes-Lyon, formerly Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, Lord Clintons younger daughter and wife of John Bowes-Lyon, Lord Strathmore younger son and brother to Queen Elizabeth

Deaf and Dumb School, Palayamkottai, India
C. E. Z. (Church of England Zenana Missionary Society) Deaf and Dumb School, Palamcottah (now Palayamkottai in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu), India. Deaf and Dumb children learning to talk

WW2 - Ju88 attacked by Spitfires - ditched off Pagham, Essex
1940

The Salvador Del Munda Disabled And The Victory ?
The Salvador Del Munda Disabled And The Victory Bearing Up A Stern And Raking Her With A Broadside

Disabled child in a wheelchair

Cinema advertisment: Disabled ex-servicemen making poppies for Earl Haig's Appeal in the 1920s Date: circa 1930s

Disabled ex-servicemen making poppies for Earl Haig's Appeal in the 1920s Date: circa 1930s

Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops, an establishment which finds work for men who have become permanently disabled on active service

Army Certificate of Honourable Discharge, WW1
Army Certificate of Honourable Discharge, Gunner in Royal Field Artillery disabled in the First World War Date: 1919

Advert requesting support for John Groom's Crippleage
John Groom's Crippleage took in young disabled women from around the country and offered them training in the art of making artificial flowers. Date: 1939

St Nicholas Homes, Pyrford
Stoop Ward at the Waifs and Strays Society's St Nicholas Homes for physically disabled children at Pyrford, Surrey. The site later became St Nicholas Orthopaedic Hospital then the Rowley Bristow

Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, Old Kent Road, London. Date: 1822

Portrait of a disabled man in a Victorian era wheelchair
Vintage 19th century photograph: potrait of a disabled man in a Victorian era wheelchair

Buskers on a street in North London
On a street in North London, one man plays the clarinet whilst his disabled partner waits to approach a passer-by for a donation. Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, Middle aged couple on their honeymoon - which half do I sleep with? Date: 20th century

C Aubrey Smith, The Creaking Chair, Comedy Theatre, Panton Street, Haymarket, London. Also starring Tallulah Bankhead. Date: 1924

Extremely jolly elderly couple - Granny in a bath chair, Grandpa in his Sunday best and bowler hat. Smiles as wide as possible!! Date: circa 1910s

A very grand-looking (and wealthy) elderly lady going out for a spin in her bath chair along with (possibly) her daughter. She is wrapped up warm with fur coat and elaborate leather hat

A rather grand-looking elderly lady going out for a spin in her bath chair along with her daughter. She is wrapped up warm with furs, muff and elaborate black hat! Date: circa 1910s

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

Skating, the Hard Frost and the Fire-plug. Apprentices and dandies ice skating on a frozen canal 82, woman with kettle at a frozen waterpump in a cold winter 83

The Lamplighter, Watchman and Link-boy. London lamplighter with ladder and fuse lighting streetlamps 55, watchman in great coat with lantern and rattle 56

Group of promenaders on the Spianata, Barcelona, 1806
View of a group of promenaders on the Spianata, Barcelona, 1806. Strollers include Catalonian women in veils and mantillas, a monk, a soldier in bicorn, children

Tomb and effigy of El Cid Rodrigo Diaz, etc
Tomb and effigy of El Cid Rodrigo Diaz and his wife Jimena Diaz 1, Duke of Cardona 2, King of Aragon 3, and portrait of Conquistador Hernan Cortes 4. Sepolcro e simulacro del Cid

Eddie Gifford the one-legged cyclist at the London HIppodrom
Eddie Gifford, the one-legged cyclist in a photograph demonstrating his death-defying leap on a bicycle from an elevated platform on the roof of the Hippodrome

Cartoon portrait, Mr J H Stead
Cartoon portrait, James Hurst Stead (1828?-1886), comic singer, music hall performer. Disabled: Now is the time to give him a helping hand

National Childrens Home, Bethnal Green - Cripples Parlour
Children attending the Cripples Parlour at the National Childrens Home (NCH), Bonner Road, Bethnal Breen. It provided education and other daytime facilities for disabled children in the area

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

Advert for Carters, rotary or lever wheelchair 1906
Hand tricycle wheelchair, with rotary or lever. Date: 1906

Advert for Carters, self propelling wheelchair 1906
Self propelling wheelchair, with single-arm drive. Date: 1906

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

Duke and Duchess of York - Ashtead Potteries, Surrey
Duke and Duchess of York visiting the Ashtead Potteries, Surrey - founded to train disabled ex-servicemen in pottery. Date: 1928

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