Lufton Manor for the Learning Disabled

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Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

Lufton Manor for the Learning Disabled


This film documentary takes a look at residential placements for the learning disabled at Lufton Manor near Yeovil in Devon. TV reporter Del Cooper follows a student after his two-year residential course back to Dodsworth near Barnsley in South Yorkshire where he works as a dustbin man or in today's terminology as a refuse collector, not the only terminology to have changed in half-century as society aims to appropriately address people with cognitive disabilities.


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