| Description | Interview with Wally Kinder from Oldham, discussing undergoing an operation at the age of eleven in 1945 and his plans to become a home teacher, teaching other blind people. He talks about moving to the RNC (Royal National College for the Blind) in Shropshire in 1947 and describes some of the skills that were taught there and at other educational institutions for blind people. He talks about his disappointment at not learning the skills to become a home teacher, instead being taught shorthand typing, and briefly describes the system of blind welfare.
Wally Kinder talks about the attitudes of sighted children and adults towards him, the reactions of his neighbours, his desire not to be treated as abnormal by sighted society, and the barriers stopping blind people from playing an independent and active role in society. He talks briefly about blind welfare and his attempts to help other blind people (tracks 1-5)
Total: 14.20 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0967380 |