Keith Castle, a heart transplant patient at Papworth Hospital, with his wife: head and shoulders portrait. Photograph, 1981.

Date:
[1981]
Reference:
794578i
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[London?] : Press Association, [1981]

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 17.8 x 24 cm

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Keith and Mrs Castle Tuesday May 5th 1981 ... London, Tuesday, PA: Keith Castle, 54, and his wife Doreen at their Battersea, South London home ... Britain's longest-surviving, and arguably best-known, heart transplant patient ... he has found that since the operation hair has started to grow where he was once bald, and his hearing has improved ... copyright the Press Association. Lettering on typed sheet attached to verso

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Wellcome Collection 794578i

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