I was born 1950 in Birmingham. All things went along reasonably well living in that time, until I reached the age of four when I caught double pneumonia. I was…
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The first six weeks of my life were quite exotic really. It’s a shame I don’t remember them. I was born in India, where my father was serving in the…
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I was born in December 1954 at Victoria Hospital in Mansfield. When I was eight months old, I contracted polio and was admitted to Heathfield Isolation Hospital in Nottingham in…
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What does it mean to live with disability for 75 years? For me, it began in the shadow of post-war polio epidemics – a childhood of *hospitals, callipers, and resilience. Yet…
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John Baldwin contracted polio aged 9, in February 1948, before a vaccine had been found. For quite some time John was left paralysed from the chest down and his memorises…
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It was Easter of 1957 when I contracted polio at the age of five, following a day trip to Margate beach. The illness led to partial paralysis of my legs…
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