| Description | Track 1: recording setup 0.24 mins
Interview with Lilian Wickens, from Chislehurst, Kent. She talks about being born blind and living at Bognor during her childhood. She describes how she built up an understanding of her environment through touch and the development of mental images, the activities she enjoyed as a child and not being sent away to a school for blind children. She talks about her feelings of self consciousness about other people trying to help her and her determination to do things for herself, living by the sea at Bognor, being taken for walks on the seafront, and enjoying listening to the sea as an adolescent, her orientation skills and adapting her living space so that she can locate things. She talks about feeling imprisoned as a child through not being allowed to learn to be independent, knowing she was different, her sharp sense of hearing, and her attempts to get out of the house and go outside as a young child. She discusses the difficulties that her parents and family had in coping with her disability, being kept inside until she was taken to live with friends in Chislehurst, her mobility without needing a white stick, and teaching herself skills that she would otherwise have learnt at school (tracks 1-11).
Total: 32.46 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0733280 |