I have created a pair of YouTube videos that tell the story of the Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich.
The second deals with the history of the second location of the museum – Firepower! inside the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich – and includes coverage of some of the exhibits that used to be on display.
This video can be found here.
BOB,
ReplyDeleteI've particularly have liked your article on Eric Knowles and his Madasahatta Campaign. Any improvement with your legs and mobility? Have you had the chance to move your wargaming onto the second level of your home? Best Wishes. KEV.
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteI think that you would have liked Eric if you had met him.
My legs are improving slightly thanks to the regular exercises that I do. I can now stand using a walking frame and have even managed to walk about fifteen feet and back although it took me some time and it left me feeling very tired.
All the best,
Bob
BOB,
DeleteYour mobility doesn't sound to good- hope you keep on improving. I'm having railings installed and a special toilet seat with arm railings -all to help me with my lack of strength in my legs. Best Wishes. KEV.
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteTo be truthful, I think that now I am getting the sort of help I should have had months ago from the physiotherapists, I'm making quite rapid progress with my mobility.
Less than a fortnight ago I could not get out of bed without the use of a hoist. Ten days ago I stopped using the hoist and began using a Molift Raiser ... and a week ago this was replaced with a walking frame. I can now get in and out of bed using the walking frame ... and on Saturday I managed to use it to walk across to the far side of the room, sit down, get up again, and return to my original position. I've now repeated this twice since and hope that tomorrow I will manage to leave the room I have been in since I got home from hospital.
I am hoping that by the end of my current support plan in a month's time, I will be able to walk - with a walking aid - around the ground floor of our house and might just have begun to climb stairs.
That might not sound like a lot, but I know that once I begin to regain some mobility, it will encourage me to work hard to continue that improvement.
I hope to be seen by a neurologist at some point so that I have some idea of the long-term prognosis for my condition. I suspect that it might mean that I will never walk properly again and may have to use a wheelchair or mobility scooter to go beyond our front door, but whatever the outcome, I am far more mobile than I was after I broke my leg.
Sue and I expect that our house will have to be modified to help me get around, including some of the things that you are having installed. We have put aside some money for a stairlift and a new access-friendly bathroom and shower, but we will not have the work done until we have had a full needs assessment by the Occupational Therapists.
Getting old does present its problems but I am determined not to let them dominate my life too much.
All the best,
Bob
BOB,
DeleteThank you for the reply- yes, we should try to not let our lack of mobility dominate things. Here is hoping you make further progress - the chair lift for the stairs and bathroom modifications sound very good ideas- hope you can get them done soon. Best Wishes. KEV.
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteI have met a few people for whom lack of mobility became a cross for their families to bear. Several of them used it to control their immediate family by being what seemed to an outside to be more demanding than was strictly necessary ... and using implied 'guilt' to get their own way if a family member exhibited any reluctance to do what was expected on them.
Sue and I are very much at the planning stage with regard to the modifications we will need to make. There has been a suggestion that we might qualify for a grant for some of the cost, and we are investigating that.
All the best,
Bob
BOB,
DeleteYes, having your purchases subsidized by a Grant would be great- I'd imagine that the chair lift would be expensive to install. Hope you continue to improve your walking. Best Wishes. KEV.
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteWe have had an estimate for a stair lift, and it was just under £10,000 because there are two turns on the staircase. Without the turns, it would have been about £6,000.
All the best,
Bob
Very good video Bob, its good to have a record of how it was as the new museum is still years away from opening. I managed to visit just before it closed and am so glad I did. Regards Paul.
ReplyDeletePDL (Paul),
DeleteThanks very much for your kind words.
The silly thing is that now the Elizabeth Line is open, access to Firepower! would have been even better, and as more people live and visit the old Arsenal site, I suspect that the museum might now have been viable.
As to the new museum in Larkhill ... well, that does not seem to be much of a priority and I cannot see how it will ever be viable. It can be accessed via the A303 (which is not the best major road in the UK!) and is not too far from Stonehenge ... but somehow I don't think that anyone going to the latter will be likely to visit a military museum as well.
All the best,
Bob