Disability Voices
Pridmore, Anne (Part 1 of 8) Speaking for ourselves: an oral history of people with cerebral palsy
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Type
sound
Duration
00:31:23
Shelf mark
C1134/13/01-04
Subjects
Cerebral Palsy
Recording date
2005-07-08
Interviewees
Pridmore, Anne, 1939- (speaker, female)
Interviewers
Austin, Anne (speaker, female)
Abstract
Part 1 (Tape 1 Side A): Born in 1939 in Stockport. First child. Difficult birth. Visits to health professionals: professor of brain surgery, physiotherapists, orthopaedic hospital for about 18 months aged five. Learning to walk. Splints. Harsh regime in hospital – no food taken in. Bed wetting. Restrainers. First orthopaedic operation at nine to lengthen the tendons in the back of my ankles - 49 stitches in each leg. Operation repeated at 13 - wore callipers. Late in life was residential home visitor to four men with cp who were in a psychiatric ward till their late 50s. Arthritis. Father went to war the year Anne was born – not a close relationship. Grandmother lived with family. Getting married. Fighting to go to mainstream school. Youth clubs. Full-time employment at 14 for 25 years. Business school to learn shorthand, book-keeping, typing. Taking a degree in aged 40+ after husband left. Death of grandmother. She kept a sweet shop in Stockport during the war. Air raids and rationing. When Anne was 10, mother had another baby who had cp and hydrocephalus and died. Mother adopted sister Catherine, 11 years younger. Inclusive education. School discipline. Friends.
Description
Born 1939, Stockport. Educated school for physical handicapped at Bromley Hall. Each playback track is the digitisation of a single side of tape.
Related transcripts
Anne Pridmore interviewed by Anne Austin: full transcript of the interview (PDF)
Related links
'Speaking For Ourselves' project website, including resources, information for schools and news
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Pridmore, Anne (Part 1 of 8) Speaking for ourselves: an oral history of people with cerebral palsy
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