| Description | Interview with Miss Crawshaw, matron at Chorley Wood grammar school for blind girls, Hertfordshire. She continues to talk about the girls' relationships with their friends and their need for a 'best friend', the social activities and clubs that are run at the school including walks in a 'crocodile' and walking tests to prepare for unaccompanied shopping trips to Rickmansworth. She talks about the greater independence allowed to the older students in making hot drinks and snacks, and the things that many of the girls are not allowed to do at home. She describes the humiliation that many girls feel in having to depend on younger siblings to go out, the strain that many girls feel when undertaking leisure activities and their outlet in pop music and folk singing. She discusses the need to impose rules on unreliable girls and the ways in which they educate their parents about the things they are capable of doing, and the concern of the local sighted community about allowing the girls to go out and cross the roads and the eventual building of a pelican crossing (tracks 1-5).
Total: 16.23 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0997880 |