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Achievements in the North West1846The Manchester Institute for the Deaf andDumb is established, now known as TheManchester Deaf Centre.1872Work begins at Dearnley on a newworkhouse on a 24-acre site bought by theRochdale Poor Law Union. By the time itopens in 1877, it can hold 847 inmates andemploys 29 officers. The total cost for landand buildings is £85,000 (in today’s money,that would be worth £6.5 million).1876In Salford, the Greengate Medical Missionis founded to help children with cerebralpalsy.18901899The Bethesda Homefor Crippled Childrenin Manchesteropens to providea permanent homefor physicallyimpaired children.Gilbert Kerlew transforms the Band ofKindness from an animal welfare societyinto the Crippled Children’s Help Society,providing social and medical support fordisabled children in Manchester.1903The Sandlebridge Boarding Schools andColony for ‘mentally defective’ residentsopens at Great Warford in Cheshire.30
Achievements in the North West19051984Manchester opensthe first localauthority residentialschool for ‘crippledchildren’.The organisation DaDa (Disability and DeafArts) was founded, then known as ArtsIntegrated Merseyside. It becomes oneof the first Disability Arts Forums led bydisabled people, breaking away from Shapein 1986 and eventually being set up in1990 as North West Disability Arts Forum.1985An event is held in July at County Hall,Manchester, for disabled people. It isattended by more than 100 people.It results in the Greater ManchesterCoalition of Disabled People (GMCDP).As an organisation run and controlled bydisabled people, it aims to promote theindependence and integration ofdisabled people in society; identify andchallenge the discrimination faced bydisabled people in society; and encourageand support the self-organisation ofdisabled people. Early members of GMCDPinclude Brenda Hilditch, a nurse turned<strong>disability</strong> campaigner, who becomes a localcouncillor in Tameside.1985Manchester Town Hallis not yet accessible,and the DisabledPeople’s SteeringGroup have topicket outside it forthis to be changed. Disabled people alsosuccessfully lobby for the Council’s EqualOpportunities Unit posts to be reservedfor disabled people. This is possibly thefirst instance of such designation of postsin the country, prior to the enactment ofequalities legislation.31
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