Disability Voices
Entwistle, Pat (Part 3 of 8). Speaking for ourselves: an oral history of people with cerebral palsy
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Type
sound
Duration
00:30:48
Shelf mark
C1134/24/01-04
Subjects
Cerebral Palsy
Recording date
2005-04-04
Interviewees
Entwistle, Pat, 1940- (speaker, male)
Interviewers
Smith, Richard (speaker, male: interviewer)
Speakers
Bennett-Gibson, Leona (speaker, female, facilitator)
Abstract
Part 3 (Tape 2 Side A): 1980s video, ‘The Land of the Droog’. Questions asked by children. Pat was keen to encourage the girls to be immunised against Rubella. Difficulties in Catholic-run schools. Pat was chairman of the Greater Manchester Alpha, a group of people with cp advising Spastics Society. Life Member of Scope. In 1951-2 [whilst at Bleasdale House] Pat met David Robinson, who also had cerebral palsy. Pat spent his first-ever Christmas in a family home, with David’s parents in Denton. Margaret and Jack, David’s aunt and uncle, became Pat’s foster parents. Their visits to Bleasdale House and Singleton Hall near Blackpool. Lancashire County Council refused to allow Pat to be adopted, saying that his birth parents must consent. Foster parents worked in one of four big hat factories in Denton. First holiday to Isle of Man. Foster grandfather had a leg amputated because of diabetes in 1953. Twice daily insulin. Meeting Joan, future wife and Secretary, at Inskip League for Disabled People, which started in Oldham in 1947. Pat and Joan married on 21 December 1962 - stayed with cousins in Marple [near Stockport] for their honeymoon. Daughter, Ruth, was born on 16 August 1963, Caesarean birth, 2 months premature. People’s reaction to Pat as father.
Description
Interviewed for the project 'Speaking for ourselves: an oral history of people with cerebral palsy'; a project conducted by Scope in partnership with the British Library, financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund
Related transcripts
Pat Entwistle interviewed by Richard Smith: full transcript of the interview (PDF)
Related links
'Speaking For Ourselves' project website, including resources, information for schools and news
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Entwistle, Pat (Part 3 of 8). Speaking for ourselves: an oral history of people with cerebral palsy
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