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Multifunctional theatre in glass and cast-iron construction from the Wilhelminian period
Construction time: 1885 - 1886
It belonged to the orthopaedic specialist clinic "Hessing'sche Ökonomie- und Heilanstalt" (today "Hessing-Klinik"), which was founded in 1868.
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Ah! Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller’s journey is done;
Where the youth pined away with desire
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my sunflower wishes to go!
William Blake, 1794
A beautiful tall metal sculpture of sunflowers outside the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford.
To bring you joy and sunshine if your day is cloudy and cold.
MATERIALS: Polychrome brickwork in English bond, mainly brown brick with red brick bands. Stone window dressings. Gabled tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles.
PLAN: Rectangular structure with three bay nave with aisles, two south-east porches either side of the one bay chancel and north-west bellcote. It is aligned south-east to north-west.
EXTERIOR: The south-east side has a central gable crowned by a metal cross-shaped saddlestone and large arched window with three trefoil-headed lights surmounted by a central cinquefoil light and two roundels. Recessed on either side are gabled porches with central arched openings flanked by sidelights and arched openings to side walls. Original arched wooden doors behind. The north-east and south-west sides have two small hipped dormers with wooden louvres and paired trefoil-headed windows. The north-west side has a gabled bellcote with trefoil-shaped bell opening, central window with quatrefoil above two trefoil-headed lights and similar single trefoil lights to the aisles.
INTERIOR: The walls are of red brick with black brick bands with a three bay pointed arched arcade with stiff leaf stone capitals, granite columns and deep brick bases. There is a canted roof with tiebeams with quatrefoil mouldings to the spandrels. Most of the wooden pews survive with tiled flooring to the centre and aisles, metal floor grilles and a small octagonal stone font. The south-east window, has probably original glass depicting Christ as The Good Shepherd, flanked by scenes appropriate to a workhouse of a baker giving bread to a pauper and a woman visiting the sick. Other windows have probably been brought in. The north-east central window has two lights, one depicting St Vincent de Paul with two children in early C20 dress, the other St Luke. The north window of the south-west aisle depicts The Good Shepherd and was inserted after 1938 in memory of staff members and surgical staff of Pembury Hospital. The south-west aisle contains two windows considered by the hospital chaplain in 1956 to be by C E Kempe (1837-1907). These comprise The Virgin and Child, dedicated to Edith Mary Myles (1874-1957), the first President of the League of Friends and Headmistress of Tunbridge Wells County Grammar School and the adjoining quatrefoil with an inscription of 1957 in memory of Philip Stewart Browning, a former hospital chaplain. A further stained glass window in the north-east aisle depicting the Baptism of Christ is to the memory of Amelia Scott with an inscription of 1955. There are also a number of small wall plaques to people connected with the workhouse or hospital. These include plaques dedicated to Thomas R McGill, Master of Tonbridge Workhouse between 1866 and 1893, John Francis Carter Braine, surgeon to the radiotherapy department 1939-1953, Ivor Elwyn Joseph Thomas, obstetrician and gynaecologist 1939-1953 and Constantine Lambrinudi, orthopaedic surgeon 1890-1943. The pipe organ to the west end of the eastern aisle is probably original.
HISTORY: The earliest buildings on the Pembury Hospital site were the two buildings of Tonbridge Workhouse dating from 1836. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 prescribed a Church of England chaplain should hold divine service at workhouses every Sunday but in the early days most boards did not set aside a dedicated room for use as a chapel but adapted a dining room for the purpose. From 1859 onwards the "Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society" enjoined the erection of dedicated chapels which were not usually consecrated but always licenced.
On April 24th 1863 the Rev. Saint of Groombridge Place wrote to the Board of Guardians of the Tonbridge Workhouse asking whether they would consider granting a sum from the Rates for a separate room for Public Worship or a site for a building built by voluntary contributions. The Board agreed to this providing it was under the control of the Guardians and would be used only for divine service. In June, the Committee specified that the building should be detached from the existing buildings, that the site should be as near as possible to the north-western corner of the site, the building range should be parallel with the road, the number to be accomodated should be not less than 300, that the partition for the separation of the sexes should be not less than 6 feet high and be constructed so that the church was divided longitudinally, that the plans should show separate entrances fenced off from the surrounding ground for males and females and the elevation of the building should be as much in harmony as possible with the Fever Ward of the hospital. These resolutions were approved by the Poor Law Board on 14th July 1863 and on 22nd July Robert Wheeler (fl. 1856-1882) of Brenchley (the architect) wrote to say he had taken these alterations into account and re-drawn the plans. These plans were subsequently approved by the Poor Law Board.
A dedicated chapel was duly erected to the north-west of the Tonbridge Workhouse buildings, beside the workhouse laundry, and is shown on the First Edition OS map which was surveyed in 1868. The workhouse function of the chapel is demonstrated from the exterior by the provision of two entrance porches, one for male paupers and one for female paupers, but although the Board of Guardians stipulated an internal screen there is no evidence of this. By the 1860s screens to separate various categories of paupers had gone out of fashion and perhaps it was never built. The cost of the chapel was £650 with seating for 300. The workhouse capacity was 400 but Catholics and Non-conformists were permitted to attend their own place of worship if one was located nearby or to receive visits from their priest or minister.
On 10th September 1887, a contract was drawn up with Messrs. George and Frank Penn in the sum of £3161 12s., for the stripping, boarding, fitting and retiling the chapel and works connected therewith, as well as the taking down of the bell turret. The surveyor was William Oakley.
In 1938 Tonbridge Workhouse became Pembury Hospital and the workhouse chapel became the hospital chapel.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: A little altered Gothic style chapel constructed of good quality materials which is an unusually elaborate example (particularly for its interior) of a purpose-built workhouse chapel, a building type which is becoming increasingly rare. There is additional value for historical associations and memorials particular to its later hospital use.
Here we find this VDL SB200, Wright Pulsar 2 in it's first summer in service at Oswestry in 2014, a batch of seven new to upgrade the Oswestry to Wrexham services in the February.
One duty that existed at the time was a bus that came off the 2C Wrexham to Cefn Mawr would return to Oswestry to operate the 18:00 53 to Ellesmere and return and thus use the bus that had been booked on the 2/2A/2C all day. We find it here passing the Orthopaedic Hospital near Gobowen, catching the post 19:00 evening sunshine on the last working of the day. The driver on this occasion is seemingly trying to hide their face from the camera.
This fine building in Broad Street Birmingham was originally the Islington glass works (1815) the centre piece was the owners house. It was to become the Lying-In Hospital and then the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. After a period of disuse it was converted into the Old Orleans Bar, it is currently Zaras, Bar, Grill & Club, the whole forecourt has been covered by a rather noxious canopy spoiling the whole appearance of this listed building.
To the right a bus is loading, it is HOV 700, the bus was a Leyland PD2/1 with Brush H30/24R body, new to Birmingham City Transport in November 1948. The bus is working the 5A service, as was normal with cross city services it only showed the final destination on the blind. The other vehicle in the picture is 43 LOM a fairly new Austin A40 Farina mk II. When this picture was taken on 11/03/1964 Broad Street was a cold depressing street of car dealers and offices, today it is 'the' place to go on a Friday or Saturday night, wine bars and eateries flank both sides and street marshals patrol to assist those that have the drink taken.
This is one of the pictures of which I have no idea of its origin. If anyone does know I will gladly attribute it or withdraw it depending on the owners wishes. I have a lot of pictures like this and it seems a shame to keep them hidden when they could be enjoyed by many.
Geoff Dowling Copyright original owner
Am Endpunkt der Franz-Joseph-Promenade in Lovran am Hafen angekommen (etwa bei km 9,7 ab dem Hafen Volosko) ließ ich den Blick zurück wandern um zu sehen, woher wir kamen. Jetzt erst sah ich, wie dominant das Gebäude der orthopädischen Klinik die Küste von Lovran optisch beherrscht. Das Gebäude wurde zwischen 1907 und 1912 als Grand Hotel Lovrana erbaut. Es diente bis 1935 als Luxushotel für betuchte Gäste, die nach Lovran zur Kur kamen. Seit 1935 dient das Gebäude als orthopädische Klinik, womit der Gesundheitsaspekt seiner Gäste womöglich noch stärker betont wird als zuvor. Wir jedenfalls waren noch so gut bei Fuß, um anschließend in die Altstadt von Lovran zu spazieren und in einem ausgesucht guten Restaurant ein herrliches Abendessen mit frisch zubereitetem Fisch und wohl schmeckendem weissen Malvasier-Wein zu geniessen.
Arriving at the end point of the Franz-Joseph-Promenade in Lovran at the harbour (at around km 9.7 from Volosko harbour), I looked back to see where we had come from. Only now did I realise how dominant the orthopaedic clinic building visually dominates the Lovran coastline. The building was built between 1907 and 1912 as the Grand Hotel Lovrana. Until 1935, it served as a luxury hotel for wealthy guests who came to Lovran for a cure. Since 1935, the building has served as an orthopaedic clinic, perhaps emphasising the health aspect of its guests even more than before. In any case, we were still in good enough shape to stroll into the old town centre of Lovran afterwards and enjoy a delicious dinner of freshly prepared fish and delicious white Malvasia wine in an excellent restaurant.
A collection of Imitation Sunflowers outside the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital in Oxford. They are always blooming whenever I visit.
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I took this shot on my way to my father's funeral.
Lake Macquarie, between Sydney and Newcastle, Australia. Where my father taught me to sail, seemingly countless years ago.
Dad loved the water, he loved Lake Macquarie, he loved life and he put more into it than most.
Dad had a profound influence on my life, as well as on the lives of tens of thousands of people who benefited from his orthopaedic surgery, in many cases with pioneering surgical proceedures - and from his teaching as a surgical professor - throughout the world, in particular (apart from Australia) in the US, UK, Indonesia, and the Pacific.
And many, many more - literally millions - who benefited from his broader community role and the public responsibility that he decided to take on and to execute to its fullest.
That's because even greater than his influence in surgery, was his influence in avoiding surgery - such as Dad's world leadership in causing the legal requirement for the wearing of seat belts in motor vehicles - an initiative that changed the safety attributes and the safety requirements of cars worldwide, and saved countless lives.
Dad was 88 when he died and he had fully earned his promotion.
But he never quite got around to retiring because his view of his place in society was that he was on earth to serve others, and to never cease serving others - whether in surgery, or in his later years in professorial roles, or any of the numerous non-medical fields such as the Boy Scout movement, handicapped children, or sporting organisations and service groups. If he was "too old" for hospitals, he was never too old for for teaching or for universities, or for his global community.
His personal ethos is found within the closing stanza of one of his favourite Australian poems:
"Question not, but live and labour
'Til yon goal be won,
Helping every feeble neighbour,
Seeking help from none;
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own."
- Adam Lindsay Gordon - "Ye Weary Wayfarer"
Against that background, I paused on my journey at this very spot and took a few shots with a heavily loaded mind. And I envisioned Dad driving Saint Peter crazy as he recited "A wonderful bird is the pelican, ........".
ODC - Repaired
What a perfect challenge for the day I came home from hospital with just one photo in my camera.
This is a rather bizarre glass case display in the lounge room of the orthopaedic ward I have just left.
In a midst of a game.
June 2012, Kabul, Afghanistan.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance. The ICRC also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. The ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It directs and coordinates the international activities conducted by the Movement in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.
THE ICRC has been permanently present in Afghanistan since 1987, and the orthopaedic programme was one of its first activities. The ICRC orthopaedic center opened in Kabul in 1988. More than 90,000 Afghan disabled have been assisted through it. Those are combatants and civilians caught up in fighting, hurt during bombardments, or struck by landmines. At present the ICRC directly manages six orthopaedic center in Afghanistan and supports four non-ICRC prosthetic workshops.
Of close to 200 employees running Kabul orthopaedic center, including a large hospital and workshops producing prostheses and wheelchairs, all are disabled themselves. The whole center is effectively run by people who had been affected by warfare, loosing limbs, but not losing their spirit.
Some of ICRC workers and patients have, under the leadership of Alberto Cairo, legendary head of the center, started a wheelchair basketball team, and practice almost every day after office hours. In June 2012 first wheelchair basketball tournament took place in Afghanistan. Kabul team did not win although they gave a tough fight.
It’s been a moving experience to see them practising and playing, an experience that cannot be forgotten.
More about the work of ICRC – www.icrc.org
Texts quoted after ICRC.
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Emergency Dept Consultant (lab coat) and Orthopaedic Registrar (surgical face mask and hair cap) triage outside the Ambulance Only/Resuscitation Area doors, noting on their clipboards as the Ambulance crew give an ATMIST handover.
Story -
Staff at the Emergency Department of Mossend Hospital were put on alert to stand by for multiple trauma patients following a serious Road Traffic Collision (RTC). The motorway smash involving a minibus, HGV and car saw SAS Ambulance crews racing several patients to Hospital medics who waited outside for their arrival. NHS Lanarkside bosses made social media appeals to only attend A&E or dial 999 only for critical emergencies and suggested contacting NHS24 or attending Minor Injury Units (MIU). Sergeant Jock McCulloch of Strathclyde Roads Policing team said: “This collision happened at a busy time of day and resulted in the closure of the motorway for several hours to allow a full collision investigation to take place. We are appealing for anyone with information to come forward. If you were driving in the area at the time and have dash cam footage, please contact Police on 101.”
A spokesperson from the Scottish Ambulance Service said: “At 1528hours today, Ambulance Control staff received multiple 999 calls regarding a serious RTC. A number of Ambulance resources were dispatched including Paramedic Response cars, Trauma Team and our Special Operations Response Team (SORT). Several patients were transported by road to nearby Hospitals.”
Witnesses claim to have seen and heard a male driver being breathalysed and told he had failed and was under arrest. Police sources refused to comment other than stating “Should criminality be established, a report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal (PF).”
Reality -
I found a new seller on that well known auction site and they make 3D printed figures in a variety of scales. I also took delivery of Vallejo paint - “basic skin tone”. All of my figures who required it have now been repainted into much more natural complexions than their previous pink. I’ve taken these pictures to display two new additions, both Doctors, one figure is a Surgeon (traditionally titled “Mr, Mrs, Ms” rather than Dr in Britain) wearing dark blue scrubs, a surgical face mask and hair cover and holding a clipboard. The second Doctor also holds a clipboard and wears blue scrubs, but also wears a white lab coat. Also featured in this shoot is my 1:76 scale model of a Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Paramedic Response Unit (PRU). This model has previously been featured in my pictures, however with an incorrect Battenberg marking set. The Nissan 4x4 shown, which stands in for Hyundai and previously Honda 4x4 vehicles used by the real SAS, now has the correct larger Battenburg markings along with yellow reflective markings around the door pillars.
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Picture -
Emergency Dept Consultant (lab coat) and Orthopaedic Registrar (surgical face mask and hair cap) triage outside the Ambulance Only/Resuscitation Area doors, noting on their clipboards as the Ambulance crew give an ATMIST handover.
Story -
Staff at the Emergency Department of Mossend Hospital were put on alert to stand by for multiple trauma patients following a serious Road Traffic Collision (RTC). The motorway smash involving a minibus, HGV and car saw SAS Ambulance crews racing several patients to Hospital medics who waited outside for their arrival. NHS Lanarkside bosses made social media appeals to only attend A&E or dial 999 only for critical emergencies and suggested contacting NHS24 or attending Minor Injury Units (MIU). Sergeant Jock McCulloch of Strathclyde Roads Policing team said: “This collision happened at a busy time of day and resulted in the closure of the motorway for several hours to allow a full collision investigation to take place. We are appealing for anyone with information to come forward. If you were driving in the area at the time and have dash cam footage, please contact Police on 101.”
A spokesperson from the Scottish Ambulance Service said: “At 1528hours today, Ambulance Control staff received multiple 999 calls regarding a serious RTC. A number of Ambulance resources were dispatched including Paramedic Response cars, Trauma Team and our Special Operations Response Team (SORT). Several patients were transported by road to nearby Hospitals.”
Witnesses claim to have seen and heard a male driver being breathalysed and told he had failed and was under arrest. Police sources refused to comment other than stating “Should criminality be established, a report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal (PF).”
Reality -
I found a new seller on that well known auction site and they make 3D printed figures in a variety of scales. I also took delivery of Vallejo paint - “basic skin tone”. All of my figures who required it have now been repainted into much more natural complexions than their previous pink. I’ve taken these pictures to display two new additions, both Doctors, one figure is a Surgeon (traditionally titled “Mr, Mrs, Ms” rather than Dr in Britain) wearing dark blue scrubs, a surgical face mask and hair cover and holding a clipboard. The second Doctor also holds a clipboard and wears blue scrubs, but also wears a white lab coat. Also featured in this shoot is my 1:76 scale model of a Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Paramedic Response Unit (PRU). This model has previously been featured in my pictures, however with an incorrect Battenberg marking set. The Nissan 4x4 shown, which stands in for Hyundai and previously Honda 4x4 vehicles used by the real SAS, now has the correct larger Battenburg markings along with yellow reflective markings around the door pillars.
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
OxTrail
OxTrail is an art trail raising money for Sobell House Hospice.
Main Herd
No. 30
Robox
Location:
Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital
Artist:
Morgan Guillary
Supported By:
Judy Guillery
Sponsor:
OGT and Oxford Technology Park
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A prosthesis left under a bench.
ICRC orthopaedic center, Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2012.
Perhaps this is not the kind of photographs one expects to see when he or she searches for photos from Afghanistan. We look for the kind of war we’ve been told about, the so-called “European War” where one side is ultimately good and the other – utterly evil. The kind of war shown in Western movies.
Polish Canal Plus just starts our (in the meaning of Poland) first ever, longer tv material about Afghanistan. It is called Mission Afganistan, it’s a TV series (non-documentary) and.. it shows Polish soldiers and their daily problems of life and war in the country.
The Afghan nation, yet again, is treated as a speechless entity, a crowd disallowed to say something, to voice their opinions, perspectives and needs. Poland was treated just the same way till 1989 and it amazes me that we needed only two decades to treat others just the same way. I am sincerely sorry and I am ashamed for this.
After six years of military engagement of Poland in Afghanistan, we are going to see… brave Polish soldiers at war. They are given enough voice. The whole Afghan nation is treated marginally. Not even as a background in the movie, because it was filmed - in Poland.
Over last few years I have tried to document and show what I saw as a daily life in Afghanistan. It’s beautiful inhabitants, their happiness and sorrow. I made many mistakes on the way but I always tried my best.
I’m bringing pictures of an orthopaedic center in Kabul to show what Mission Afghanistan really should be about.
International Committee of Red Cross assists and puts back on artificial legs and arms those that were deprived of their limbs by a bullet to spine from a U.S., British, Polish, Taliban, Mujaheddin or Soviet rifle, that lost their limbs in IED explosions, in bombardments, in war, while going to a wedding, taking a flock of sheep to grazing land or at home, while sleeping, praying, eating.
ICRC helps through a lens of neutrality, impartiality and with a focus on respecting human dignity. Since two decades they assisted hundreds of thousands of Afghan amputees, people that were made physically impaired just because someone decided to wage a war in their neighbourhood.
These are my heroes, who fight with troubles and problems on daily basis. These are the heroes of Afghanistan, not international soldiers. They commit acts of bravery.
Heroism is not about bravery, it is just about something else.
I had a chance to watch ICRC at work in their largest orthopaedic center in Kabul. Of 200 workers in it, including in hospital, workshop, management etc., almost each and every one is an amputee.
ICRC managed to create a unique place for those that work there and those receiving assistance. A place one of a kind many call their second home.
Awaiting a lesson on how to learn walking again.
ICRC orthopaedic center, Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2012.
Perhaps this is not the kind of photographs one expects to see when he or she searches for photos from Afghanistan. We look for the kind of war we’ve been told about, the so-called “European War” where one side is ultimately good and the other – utterly evil. The kind of war shown in Western movies.
Polish Canal Plus just starts our (in the meaning of Poland) first ever, longer tv material about Afghanistan. It is called Mission Afganistan, it’s a TV series (non-documentary) and.. it shows Polish soldiers and their daily problems of life and war in the country.
The Afghan nation, yet again, is treated as a speechless entity, a crowd disallowed to say something, to voice their opinions, perspectives and needs. Poland was treated just the same way till 1989 and it amazes me that we needed only two decades to treat others just the same way. I am sincerely sorry and I am ashamed for this.
After six years of military engagement of Poland in Afghanistan, we are going to see… brave Polish soldiers at war. They are given enough voice. The whole Afghan nation is treated marginally. Not even as a background in the movie, because it was filmed - in Poland.
Over last few years I have tried to document and show what I saw as a daily life in Afghanistan. It’s beautiful inhabitants, their happiness and sorrow. I made many mistakes on the way but I always tried my best.
I’m bringing pictures of an orthopaedic center in Kabul to show what Mission Afghanistan really should be about.
International Committee of Red Cross assists and puts back on artificial legs and arms those that were deprived of their limbs by a bullet to spine from a U.S., British, Polish, Taliban, Mujaheddin or Soviet rifle, that lost their limbs in IED explosions, in bombardments, in war, while going to a wedding, taking a flock of sheep to grazing land or at home, while sleeping, praying, eating.
ICRC helps through a lens of neutrality, impartiality and with a focus on respecting human dignity. Since two decades they assisted hundreds of thousands of Afghan amputees, people that were made physically impaired just because someone decided to wage a war in their neighbourhood.
These are my heroes, who fight with troubles and problems on daily basis. These are the heroes of Afghanistan, not international soldiers. They commit acts of bravery.
Heroism is not about bravery, it is just about something else.
I had a chance to watch ICRC at work in their largest orthopaedic center in Kabul. Of 200 workers in it, including in hospital, workshop, management etc., almost each and every one is an amputee.
ICRC managed to create a unique place for those that work there and those receiving assistance. A place one of a kind many call their second home.
A referee and a damn good player himself.
June 2012, Kabul, Afghanistan.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance. The ICRC also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. The ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It directs and coordinates the international activities conducted by the Movement in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.
THE ICRC has been permanently present in Afghanistan since 1987, and the orthopaedic programme was one of its first activities. The ICRC orthopaedic center opened in Kabul in 1988. More than 90,000 Afghan disabled have been assisted through it. Those are combatants and civilians caught up in fighting, hurt during bombardments, or struck by landmines. At present the ICRC directly manages six orthopaedic center in Afghanistan and supports four non-ICRC prosthetic workshops.
Of close to 200 employees running Kabul orthopaedic center, including a large hospital and workshops producing prostheses and wheelchairs, all are disabled themselves. The whole center is effectively run by people who had been affected by warfare, loosing limbs, but not losing their spirit.
Some of ICRC workers and patients have, under the leadership of Alberto Cairo, legendary head of the center, started a wheelchair basketball team, and practice almost every day after office hours. In June 2012 first wheelchair basketball tournament took place in Afghanistan. Kabul team did not win although they gave a tough fight.
It’s been a moving experience to see them practising and playing, an experience that cannot be forgotten.
More about the work of ICRC – www.icrc.org
Texts quoted after ICRC.
My first operation to correct scoliosis, lordosis and kyphosis when I was about 15. This is in comparison to the pictures I posted earlier that were taken last month.
While correcting the scoliosis etc., the first operation left me with "Flat-back Syndrome" which is what it sounds like. I basically had no "small" of my back. As a result, my head and shoulders were about three inches in front of where they should be (directly above the pelvis) so my centre of gravity was wrong. As a result, I was hunched over, in constant pain and it was getting worse.
I had an operation to correct this earlier this year, as shown in the previous photos.
These was years before I got my Digital Rebel, so the photo was taken in a hurry using a very crappy 35mm point-and-click, printed on 4x6, left in a shoebox for over a decade and then scanned in quickly as a GIF, so there's not much detail.
An artificial feet being prepared for an Afghan child.
ICRC orthopaedic center, Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2012.
Perhaps this is not the kind of photographs one expects to see when he or she searches for photos from Afghanistan. We look for the kind of war we’ve been told about, the so-called “European War” where one side is ultimately good and the other – utterly evil. The kind of war shown in Western movies.
Polish Canal Plus just starts our (in the meaning of Poland) first ever, longer tv material about Afghanistan. It is called Mission Afganistan, it’s a TV series (non-documentary) and.. it shows Polish soldiers and their daily problems of life and war in the country.
The Afghan nation, yet again, is treated as a speechless entity, a crowd disallowed to say something, to voice their opinions, perspectives and needs. Poland was treated just the same way till 1989 and it amazes me that we needed only two decades to treat others just the same way. I am sincerely sorry and I am ashamed for this.
After six years of military engagement of Poland in Afghanistan, we are going to see… brave Polish soldiers at war. They are given enough voice. The whole Afghan nation is treated marginally. Not even as a background in the movie, because it was filmed - in Poland.
Over last few years I have tried to document and show what I saw as a daily life in Afghanistan. It’s beautiful inhabitants, their happiness and sorrow. I made many mistakes on the way but I always tried my best.
I’m bringing pictures of an orthopaedic center in Kabul to show what Mission Afghanistan really should be about.
International Committee of Red Cross assists and puts back on artificial legs and arms those that were deprived of their limbs by a bullet to spine from a U.S., British, Polish, Taliban, Mujaheddin or Soviet rifle, that lost their limbs in IED explosions, in bombardments, in war, while going to a wedding, taking a flock of sheep to grazing land or at home, while sleeping, praying, eating.
ICRC helps through a lens of neutrality, impartiality and with a focus on respecting human dignity. Since two decades they assisted hundreds of thousands of Afghan amputees, people that were made physically impaired just because someone decided to wage a war in their neighbourhood.
These are my heroes, who fight with troubles and problems on daily basis. These are the heroes of Afghanistan, not international soldiers. They commit acts of bravery.
Heroism is not about bravery, it is just about something else.
I had a chance to watch ICRC at work in their largest orthopaedic center in Kabul. Of 200 workers in it, including in hospital, workshop, management etc., almost each and every one is an amputee.
ICRC managed to create a unique place for those that work there and those receiving assistance. A place one of a kind many call their second home.
When my family moved to Toronto from the west, my Mom found a job as a nurse working at Toronto East General Hospital. She often switch careers throughout her life, she departed to go into administration and returned to the hospital as Director of Nursing. Friends found work here as did I for a time, family members have been born here, others, including my Mom have died here.
Toronto East General and Orthopaedic Hospital, its official name, was known to anyone living east of Yonge Street simply as 'East Gen', but the name was changed to Michael Garron Hospital in 2016. A 50 million dollar donation will have that effect on a place.
Anyway, the plans have been made, the hoardings are up and it won't be long until the iconic 1951 frontage and wings will be demolished.
Aid from the UK is supporting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to run a network of seven orthopaedic centres across Afghanistan to assist those affected by mobility disabilities, including hundreds of mine victims. The UK is to help provide 3,800 new artificial limbs and 10,000 crutches for Afghan children and adults disabled during 30 years of conflict and extreme poverty. For more information, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/News/Latest-news/2011/UK-helps-Afghan-chi...
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In a midst of a game.
June 2012, Kabul, Afghanistan.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance. The ICRC also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. The ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It directs and coordinates the international activities conducted by the Movement in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.
THE ICRC has been permanently present in Afghanistan since 1987, and the orthopaedic programme was one of its first activities. The ICRC orthopaedic center opened in Kabul in 1988. More than 90,000 Afghan disabled have been assisted through it. Those are combatants and civilians caught up in fighting, hurt during bombardments, or struck by landmines. At present the ICRC directly manages six orthopaedic center in Afghanistan and supports four non-ICRC prosthetic workshops.
Of close to 200 employees running Kabul orthopaedic center, including a large hospital and workshops producing prostheses and wheelchairs, all are disabled themselves. The whole center is effectively run by people who had been affected by warfare, loosing limbs, but not losing their spirit.
Some of ICRC workers and patients have, under the leadership of Alberto Cairo, legendary head of the center, started a wheelchair basketball team, and practice almost every day after office hours. In June 2012 first wheelchair basketball tournament took place in Afghanistan. Kabul team did not win although they gave a tough fight.
It’s been a moving experience to see them practising and playing, an experience that cannot be forgotten.
More about the work of ICRC – www.icrc.org
Texts quoted after ICRC.
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Fixing a wheelchair before a game. Of 200 employees working and well managing the ICRC orthopaedic center in Kabul, all are disabled.
Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2012.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance. The ICRC also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. The ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It directs and coordinates the international activities conducted by the Movement in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.
THE ICRC has been permanently present in Afghanistan since 1987, and the orthopaedic programme was one of its first activities. The ICRC orthopaedic center opened in Kabul in 1988. More than 90,000 Afghan disabled have been assisted through it. Those are combatants and civilians caught up in fighting, hurt during bombardments, or struck by landmines. At present the ICRC directly manages six orthopaedic center in Afghanistan and supports four non-ICRC prosthetic workshops.
Of close to 200 employees running Kabul orthopaedic center, including a large hospital and workshops producing prostheses and wheelchairs, all are disabled themselves. The whole center is effectively run by people who had been affected by warfare, loosing limbs, but not losing their spirit.
Some of ICRC workers and patients have, under the leadership of Alberto Cairo, legendary head of the center, started a wheelchair basketball team, and practice almost every day after office hours. In June 2012 first wheelchair basketball tournament took place in Afghanistan. Kabul team did not win although they gave a tough fight.
It’s been a moving experience to see them practising and playing, an experience that cannot be forgotten.
More about the work of ICRC www.icrc.org
Texts partially quoted after ICRC.
An elderly Afghan is being taken for emergency treatment after being brought to ICRC hospital with a spinal cord injury. He was hit by a bullet in his spine.
Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2012.
Perhaps this is not the kind of photographs one expects to see when he or she searches for photos from Afghanistan. We look for the kind of war we’ve been told about, the so-called “European War” where one side is ultimately good and the other – utterly evil. The kind of war shown in Western movies.
Polish Canal Plus just starts our (in the meaning of Poland) first ever, longer tv material about Afghanistan. It is called Mission Afganistan, it’s a TV series (non-documentary) and.. it shows Polish soldiers and their daily problems of life and war in the country.
The Afghan nation, yet again, is treated as a speechless entity, a crowd disallowed to say something, to voice their opinions, perspectives and needs. Poland was treated just the same way till 1989 and it amazes me that we needed only two decades to treat others just the same way. I am sincerely sorry and I am ashamed for this.
After six years of military engagement of Poland in Afghanistan, we are going to see… brave Polish soldiers at war. They are given enough voice. The whole Afghan nation is treated marginally. Not even as a background in the movie, because it was filmed - in Poland.
Over last few years I have tried to document and show what I saw as a daily life in Afghanistan. It’s beautiful inhabitants, their happiness and sorrow. I made many mistakes on the way but I always tried my best.
I’m bringing pictures of an orthopaedic center in Kabul to show what Mission Afghanistan really should be about.
International Committee of Red Cross assists and puts back on artificial legs and arms those that were deprived of their limbs by a bullet to spine from a U.S., British, Polish, Taliban, Mujaheddin or Soviet rifle, that lost their limbs in IED explosions, in bombardments, in war, while going to a wedding, taking a flock of sheep to grazing land or at home, while sleeping, praying, eating.
ICRC helps through a lens of neutrality, impartiality and with a focus on respecting human dignity. Since two decades they assisted hundreds of thousands of Afghan amputees, people that were made physically impaired just because someone decided to wage a war in their neighbourhood.
These are my heroes, who fight with troubles and problems on daily basis. These are the heroes of Afghanistan, not international soldiers. They commit acts of bravery.
Heroism is not about bravery, it is just about something else.
I had a chance to watch ICRC at work in their largest orthopaedic center in Kabul. Of 200 workers in it, including in hospital, workshop, management etc., almost each and every one is an amputee.
ICRC managed to create a unique place for those that work there and those receiving assistance. A place one of a kind many call their second home.
Orthopaedic bed: a bed in an orthopedic ward; normally one individually designed to relieve specific skeletal symptoms; more generally, a bed with a very firm matt.
The bed parts seems very appropriate for plants.
Feature on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore ahead of the launch of their fundraising appeal. The Imaging Department is one of the departments that will benefit from the redevelopment. Superintendant Radiographer Marubini Mamphwe carries out a Scoliosis X-Ray on patient David Chapell. February 06, 2012. Photo: Edmond Terakopian
Please make sure you watch my short documentary film vimeo.com/40163337 and if you're moved, please make a donation to their funding appeal. Thanks.
In a room where countless Afghans have learned how to walk back again.
ICRC orthopaedic center, Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2012.
Perhaps this is not the kind of photographs one expects to see when he or she searches for photos from Afghanistan. We look for the kind of war we’ve been told about, the so-called “European War” where one side is ultimately good and the other – utterly evil. The kind of war shown in Western movies.
Polish Canal Plus just starts our (in the meaning of Poland) first ever, longer tv material about Afghanistan. It is called Mission Afganistan, it’s a TV series (non-documentary) and.. it shows Polish soldiers and their daily problems of life and war in the country.
The Afghan nation, yet again, is treated as a speechless entity, a crowd disallowed to say something, to voice their opinions, perspectives and needs. Poland was treated just the same way till 1989 and it amazes me that we needed only two decades to treat others just the same way. I am sincerely sorry and I am ashamed for this.
After six years of military engagement of Poland in Afghanistan, we are going to see… brave Polish soldiers at war. They are given enough voice. The whole Afghan nation is treated marginally. Not even as a background in the movie, because it was filmed - in Poland.
Over last few years I have tried to document and show what I saw as a daily life in Afghanistan. It’s beautiful inhabitants, their happiness and sorrow. I made many mistakes on the way but I always tried my best.
I’m bringing pictures of an orthopaedic center in Kabul to show what Mission Afghanistan really should be about.
International Committee of Red Cross assists and puts back on artificial legs and arms those that were deprived of their limbs by a bullet to spine from a U.S., British, Polish, Taliban, Mujaheddin or Soviet rifle, that lost their limbs in IED explosions, in bombardments, in war, while going to a wedding, taking a flock of sheep to grazing land or at home, while sleeping, praying, eating.
ICRC helps through a lens of neutrality, impartiality and with a focus on respecting human dignity. Since two decades they assisted hundreds of thousands of Afghan amputees, people that were made physically impaired just because someone decided to wage a war in their neighbourhood.
These are my heroes, who fight with troubles and problems on daily basis. These are the heroes of Afghanistan, not international soldiers. They commit acts of bravery.
Heroism is not about bravery, it is just about something else.
I had a chance to watch ICRC at work in their largest orthopaedic center in Kabul. Of 200 workers in it, including in hospital, workshop, management etc., almost each and every one is an amputee.
ICRC managed to create a unique place for those that work there and those receiving assistance. A place one of a kind many call their second home.
26/08/2022. Epsom, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a surgical hub at the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Epsom. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
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Feature on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore ahead of the launch of their fundraising appeal. Following a hip operation three days prior, Nicole Granger takes her first ever steps using crutches; the tiring walk down the corridor has her taking a short break before returning to her room. Adolescent Unit. February 06, 2012. Photo: Edmond Terakopian
Please make sure you watch my short documentary film vimeo.com/40163337 and if you're moved, please make a donation to their funding appeal. Thanks.
Islington House and The Bank on Broad Street, Westside, Birmingham.
This was a nightclub called Zara's from 2015 until 2021-22.
Appears to have had it's fixtures and fittings outside removed.
Grade II listed building
Main Block to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
Description
BROAD STREET
1.
5104 City Centre B1
Main block to the
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
SP 08 NE 7/21
II
2.
Built 1814 as Islington House for Rice Harris. Red brick and stucco; slate
roof. Symmetrical building of 9 bays, the centre 3 of 2 1/2 storeys, the outer
ones of 2 storeys and set back somewhat. The centre with central Tuscan
porch with entablature with triglyph frieze and 2 sash windows each flanked
by pilasters carrying a segmental arch. Broad band at first floor level.
First floor with sash windows with cornices. Broad band at second floor
level. Second floor with square casement windows within plain flat surrounds.
Cornice and blocking course. The outer bays have, on the ground floor, windows
with cornices and, on the first floor, windows with plain flat surrounds.
All the windows of the outer bays altered to casements. The forecourt wall
end railing built 'at the sole cost of 2 friends' apparently circa 1860.
Listing NGR: SP0591686408
The Islington Glassworks of 1815. Three-bay, three-storey centrepiece built as the owner's house. Stone strings between the floors, Doric porch. The windows were heavy architraves and lintels are probably of 1863 by J J Bateman, who added the wings then, when it became the Lying-In Hospital. Railings with Gothic piers by Martin & Chamberlain, 1869.
From: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
It used to be the Outpatients of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital.
A while of rest before next game.
June 2012, Kabul, Afghanistan.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance. The ICRC also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. The ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It directs and coordinates the international activities conducted by the Movement in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.
THE ICRC has been permanently present in Afghanistan since 1987, and the orthopaedic programme was one of its first activities. The ICRC orthopaedic center opened in Kabul in 1988. More than 90,000 Afghan disabled have been assisted through it. Those are combatants and civilians caught up in fighting, hurt during bombardments, or struck by landmines. At present the ICRC directly manages six orthopaedic center in Afghanistan and supports four non-ICRC prosthetic workshops.
Of close to 200 employees running Kabul orthopaedic center, including a large hospital and workshops producing prostheses and wheelchairs, all are disabled themselves. The whole center is effectively run by people who had been affected by warfare, loosing limbs, but not losing their spirit.
Some of ICRC workers and patients have, under the leadership of Alberto Cairo, legendary head of the center, started a wheelchair basketball team, and practice almost every day after office hours. In June 2012 first wheelchair basketball tournament took place in Afghanistan. Kabul team did not win although they gave a tough fight.
It’s been a moving experience to see them practising and playing, an experience that cannot be forgotten.
More about the work of ICRC – www.icrc.org
Texts quoted after ICRC.
An elderly Afghan from Zurmat district of Paktia, double amputee.
ICRC orthopaedic center, Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2012.
Perhaps this is not the kind of photographs one expects to see when he or she searches for photos from Afghanistan. We look for the kind of war we’ve been told about, the so-called “European War” where one side is ultimately good and the other – utterly evil. The kind of war shown in Western movies.
Polish Canal Plus just starts our (in the meaning of Poland) first ever, longer tv material about Afghanistan. It is called Mission Afganistan, it’s a TV series (non-documentary) and.. it shows Polish soldiers and their daily problems of life and war in the country.
The Afghan nation, yet again, is treated as a speechless entity, a crowd disallowed to say something, to voice their opinions, perspectives and needs. Poland was treated just the same way till 1989 and it amazes me that we needed only two decades to treat others just the same way. I am sincerely sorry and I am ashamed for this.
After six years of military engagement of Poland in Afghanistan, we are going to see… brave Polish soldiers at war. They are given enough voice. The whole Afghan nation is treated marginally. Not even as a background in the movie, because it was filmed - in Poland.
Over last few years I have tried to document and show what I saw as a daily life in Afghanistan. It’s beautiful inhabitants, their happiness and sorrow. I made many mistakes on the way but I always tried my best.
I’m bringing pictures of an orthopaedic center in Kabul to show what Mission Afghanistan really should be about.
International Committee of Red Cross assists and puts back on artificial legs and arms those that were deprived of their limbs by a bullet to spine from a U.S., British, Polish, Taliban, Mujaheddin or Soviet rifle, that lost their limbs in IED explosions, in bombardments, in war, while going to a wedding, taking a flock of sheep to grazing land or at home, while sleeping, praying, eating.
ICRC helps through a lens of neutrality, impartiality and with a focus on respecting human dignity. Since two decades they assisted hundreds of thousands of Afghan amputees, people that were made physically impaired just because someone decided to wage a war in their neighbourhood.
These are my heroes, who fight with troubles and problems on daily basis. These are the heroes of Afghanistan, not international soldiers. They commit acts of bravery.
Heroism is not about bravery, it is just about something else.
I had a chance to watch ICRC at work in their largest orthopaedic center in Kabul. Of 200 workers in it, including in hospital, workshop, management etc., almost each and every one is an amputee.
ICRC managed to create a unique place for those that work there and those receiving assistance. A place one of a kind many call their second home.
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[Tuesday, 29 Oct 1918]
GENERAL PAU AT MONT PARK HOSPITAL: General Pau, accompanied by Lady Helen Ferguson, paid a brief visit on Tuesday afternoon: to the largest military hospital in the Commonwealth-the 16th Australian General Hospital at Mont Park. On arrival at the institution the visitors were met, in the. open. space in front of the main entrance, by members of the staff, who were paraded in a picturesque formation resembling three sides of an octagon, with the red tippetted matron and sisters in the centre, the nurses and V.A.D.'s in spotless white on either side, and the medical staff and orderlies, in khaki, on the outskirts. After a by no means formal inspection of this "guard," the General and Lady Helen. Ferguson were shown round the principal buildings that comprise the hospital. They traversed a portion of the three-quarters of a mile of verandahs that flank the buildings; and they passed through several of the wards, which at present accommodate 540 cases, but are capable of housing about 1100. They inspected the orthopaedic block, where the latest apparatus for the electrical treatment of diseases and wounds has been installed; the gymnasium, where muscles are rehabilitated, the commodious kitchen, with its steam cooking equipment and the Red Cross Rest Home. Among the patients General Pau had a cheery word and a hearty handshake for all, and in many cases: a robust joke whlch, when interpreted by Lady Helen Ferguson, appealed, readily to the soldier mind. "Have you been to the front?" he asked a con-valescent soldier. "No," was. the modest reply, "Only to Egypt." "When I go back to France, and they ask me whether I have been for a trip," added General Pau, "I shall say, 'Oh, no, only to Australia.' " Seeing a young woman sitting beside one of the beds he said with a merry laugh, "A sister-perhaps-but I will not be indiscreet enough to inquire." General Pau's personality, which had endeared him to all who have met. him in Australia, is particularly attractive, among soldiers, several of whom had no difficulty in inducing him to stand quite tamely before their cameras.
1918 'GENERAL PAU AT MONT PARK HOSPITAL.', Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918), 2 November, p. 25. (TOWN EDITION.), viewed 10 May 2016, nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89071378
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Injuries occur whether playing recreationally or in a structured league, and some are more prevalent than others.
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•Clogged Fingers
•Injuries to the knee
•Severe Thigh Bruising
•Facial Haircuts
•Fractures of the feet
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It's believed around 60% of injuries occur in the second half of games, implying that exhaustion plays a significant role. Aside from the preventative actions outlined above, always strive to maintain the greatest possible physical condition.
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An Afghan undergoing therapy after loosing a leg in an ISAF bombardment.
ICRC orthopaedic center, Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2012.
Perhaps this is not the kind of photographs one expects to see when he or she searches for photos from Afghanistan. We look for the kind of war we’ve been told about, the so-called “European War” where one side is ultimately good and the other – utterly evil. The kind of war shown in Western movies.
Polish Canal Plus just starts our (in the meaning of Poland) first ever, longer tv material about Afghanistan. It is called Mission Afganistan, it’s a TV series (non-documentary) and.. it shows Polish soldiers and their daily problems of life and war in the country.
The Afghan nation, yet again, is treated as a speechless entity, a crowd disallowed to say something, to voice their opinions, perspectives and needs. Poland was treated just the same way till 1989 and it amazes me that we needed only two decades to treat others just the same way. I am sincerely sorry and I am ashamed for this.
After six years of military engagement of Poland in Afghanistan, we are going to see… brave Polish soldiers at war. They are given enough voice. The whole Afghan nation is treated marginally. Not even as a background in the movie, because it was filmed - in Poland.
Over last few years I have tried to document and show what I saw as a daily life in Afghanistan. It’s beautiful inhabitants, their happiness and sorrow. I made many mistakes on the way but I always tried my best.
I’m bringing pictures of an orthopaedic center in Kabul to show what Mission Afghanistan really should be about.
International Committee of Red Cross assists and puts back on artificial legs and arms those that were deprived of their limbs by a bullet to spine from a U.S., British, Polish, Taliban, Mujaheddin or Soviet rifle, that lost their limbs in IED explosions, in bombardments, in war, while going to a wedding, taking a flock of sheep to grazing land or at home, while sleeping, praying, eating.
ICRC helps through a lens of neutrality, impartiality and with a focus on respecting human dignity. Since two decades they assisted hundreds of thousands of Afghan amputees, people that were made physically impaired just because someone decided to wage a war in their neighbourhood.
These are my heroes, who fight with troubles and problems on daily basis. These are the heroes of Afghanistan, not international soldiers. They commit acts of bravery.
Heroism is not about bravery, it is just about something else.
I had a chance to watch ICRC at work in their largest orthopaedic center in Kabul. Of 200 workers in it, including in hospital, workshop, management etc., almost each and every one is an amputee.
ICRC managed to create a unique place for those that work there and those receiving assistance. A place one of a kind many call their second home.