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One of the aims of our project is to make collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people more visible – and to share some of the objects our Fellows and Trainees are discovering.

Some will have quite obvious connections to disabled people’s lives – a walking stick, some braille or images of disabled people. But we will also be exploring less obvious connections too. Sometimes the significance of an object is its owner; its part in a bigger story, or the way someone with lived experience of disability has responded to it. In this way we hope to broaden the ways that d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent stories are told.

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LIVERPOOL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND BABY CRIB (Baby crib)

1957

MOL.2022.43

ID: A large brown wicker baby basket with four tall legs. It has detailed looping patterns woven into its design.This intricate wicker baby crib was made by pupils at the School for the Blind, Hardman Street. It was commissioned by the donor, Lis Hasted's mother for her birth in 1957. The family lived in Blundellsands.At...

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ID: A large brown wicker baby basket with four tall legs. It has detailed looping patterns woven into its design.

This intricate wicker baby crib was made by pupils at the School for the Blind, Hardman Street. It was commissioned by the donor, Lis Hasted's mother for her birth in 1957. The family lived in Blundellsands.

At this time, the Hardman Street School for the Blind was a technical college for pupils aged 16-21 from the North West region. Pupils would often move up from the junior Royal School for the Blind in Wavertree to Hardman Street, where they would receive a general education, and learn trades including basket-making, shoe repairing and machine knitting.

The pupils would often sell their hand-crafted goods on site and take commissions from the local community.

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