Disability Voices
Webb, Geoff (Part 1 of 6). Geoff Webb Memories of Polio
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Type
sound
Duration
00:52:46
Shelf mark
C1383/1
Subjects
Polio
Recording date
1975
Speakers
Webb, Geoffrey, 1927- (speaker, male)
Abstract
Part 1: introduction to reminiscences self-recorded by Geoff Webb (full name: Alexander Geoffrey Webb) intended as the basis for an autobiography. Born 1927, in Peshawar, India; father in the Indian Army; started school aged 7 in 1934 in Eastbourne. Dictates imagined letters (1935 - 1956) from his childhood, teenage years and young adulthood to sketch in his early life, including: war years, joinging the Queen's Royal Regiment, joining the Sixth Rajputana Rifles, becoming a land agent for Strutt & Parker in Lewes, marriage, becoming a sub-agent for Rangemore, working for Peter Fleming. Succumbing to a polio infection in September 1959.
Description
Self-recorded reminiscences of a polio sufferer and activist for independent living facilities for the disabled, recorded around 1975
Related transcripts
Geoff Webb self-recorded reminiscences: full transcript (PDF)
Metadata record:
Webb, Geoff (Part 1 of 6). Geoff Webb Memories of Polio
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