| Description | Interview with Mr Hancocks. He talks about his early memories, how adults treated him, and being aware that there was something different about him. He talks about his experiences of education at the local village school where the teachers tried to get him to copy figures on a blackboard. He goes on to discuss his memories of going away to a residential school at Harborne, Birmingham, his feelings of apprehension, the indignity of being made to wear a bib at meals, and describes his first few days at school and the process of settling in. He discusses beginning to make friends and the feeling of security that resulted from this, his apprehension about leaving the sheltered environment of the school where blind people always come first to go into the wider world, and his father's concern that he would be safe in the job he did (tracks 1-6).
Total: 16.56 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D1000580 |