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A kitchen for you : a practical guide to equipment and design for elderly people and people with disabilities / Disabled Living Foundation.

The Care and welfare library

Living with a handicap / Philip Nicols.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 21.7 x 13 cm

A mechanism to enable invalids to lift themselves up into the sitting position in bed. Engraving by A.W. Warren, ca. 1820, after H.W. Reveley.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: The Wardway Chair (John Ward Limited, 246 Tottenham Court Road, London, ca. 1910?), Harford Invalid Folding Chair (1933), i-limb skin, i-limb digits and i-limb ultra (Touch Bionics, 2013?), Aztec Centre (Croydon Care Solutions).

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Disability : equipment ephemera. Box 1.

"A collective response to societal barriers, how we manage them and over come them. Filled with 20 amazing artists, writers and photographers."--From author's website.

Drawn Poorly

1 volume : chiefly colour illustrations ; 21 cm

Drawn poorly : barriers. Issue 4.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes a 1951 South African charity seal for disabled children, another for A.I.C.P (Division for the crippled), and items about: Action on Disability and Development, Alton Cripples Home & College, Artsline (disabled access to theatres), Band of help, Birmingham & District Cripples Union, Birmingham Multi-Handicap Group, British Sports Association for the Disabled, Cambridgeshire County Council community care, Camden social services for young disabled people, Carematch (residential care), Carers National Association, Caresearch (computerised service for the handicapped, 1983), Croydon Youth Phab Club (2010, 2011), Disabled Driving Association, City Mobility Ltd. (wheelchairs etc.), Disabled Living Foundation, International year of disabled people 1981 UK postage stamps (A4 posters in English and Welsh).

Disability : organisations & services ephemera. Box 1.

Catalogue advertising a range of daily living aids on sale from the charity to raise funds for Parkinson's UK.

Everyday living 2015  : your catalogue for daily living aids and Parkinson's UK essentials / Parkinson's UK.

Disability equipment assessment programme reports.

Disability equipment assessment programme reports

Lower limb dressing aids : an assessment of equipment to assist people with dressing problems / Department of Health, Disability Equipment Assessment Programme.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 21 x 13.8 cm

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A kitchen for you : a practical guide to equipment and design for elderly people and people with disabilities / Disabled Living Foundation.

Living with a handicap / Philip Nicols.

A mechanism to enable invalids to lift themselves up into the sitting position in bed. Engraving by A.W. Warren, ca. 1820, after H.W. Reveley.

Disability : equipment ephemera. Box 1.

Drawn poorly : barriers. Issue 4.

Disability : organisations & services ephemera. Box 1.

Everyday living 2015 : your catalogue for daily living aids and Parkinson's UK essentials / Parkinson's UK.

Lower limb dressing aids : an assessment of equipment to assist people with dressing problems / Department of Health, Disability Equipment Assessment Programme.

A mechanism to enable an armless person to write with a pen by operating a treadle with the foot. Engraving by G. Gladwin after R. Cocking, ca. 1820.

Home management / compiler E.R. Wilshere ; assistant B.H. Rostance ; edited by P.J.R. Nichols, E.E. Rogers and E.R. Wilshere.

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A kitchen for you : a practical guide to equipment and design for elderly people and people with disabilities / Disabled Living Foundation.

Living with a handicap / Philip Nicols.

A mechanism to enable invalids to lift themselves up into the sitting position in bed. Engraving by A.W. Warren, ca. 1820, after H.W. Reveley.

Disability : equipment ephemera. Box 1.

Drawn poorly : barriers. Issue 4.

Disability : organisations & services ephemera. Box 1.

Everyday living 2015 : your catalogue for daily living aids and Parkinson's UK essentials / Parkinson's UK.

Lower limb dressing aids : an assessment of equipment to assist people with dressing problems / Department of Health, Disability Equipment Assessment Programme.

A mechanism to enable an armless person to write with a pen by operating a treadle with the foot. Engraving by G. Gladwin after R. Cocking, ca. 1820.

Home management / compiler E.R. Wilshere ; assistant B.H. Rostance ; edited by P.J.R. Nichols, E.E. Rogers and E.R. Wilshere.

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