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Photographs

The Disabled People’s Archive holds thousands of photographs, from the 1920s to the present.

Unfortunately, they are not yet catalogued. We are looking forward to making them available, and developing a team of ‘archive detectives’ to assist us in finding out as much as we can about who is in the photos and detail about the events, campaigns and demonstrations they show.

Here are just a few. Please do contact us if you can identify people in the photos or have a story to tell about what the photo shows.

We are giving a little information about the photo and event plus a visual description of the photo.

Please click on the photos for details.

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Photo of disabled protestors outside Parliament for Not Dead Yet Protest November 2014.

Not Dead Yet Protest November 2014

Black and white photo of a group of people on the Manchester Town Hall link bridge including two children in wheelchairs at the front. A woman cuts a ribbon across the hallway. 

Manchester Town Hall step free link bridge, late 1980s

Colour photo of two police officers hold back disabled protestors at two large glass doors, with people inside the building looking on.

Birmingham DAN protest, 1995

Photo: gathering for the Trike rally, Rochdale Town Hall, July 1977

Trike Rally Rochdale - 1977

Photo: Anti Apartheid protest, Stoke Mandeville Games, 25 July 1982

Anti-Apartheid Protest - 1982

Photo: GMCDP members assemble for Civil Rights Bill lobby, London, 9 April 1986

Lobby - Tom Clark Civil Rights Bill, London - 1986

Photo: gathering for the BCODP Day of Action, Kennington Park London, 28 July 1988

BCODP Day of Action, London - 1988

Photo: protest against Telethon, London Weekend TV studio, 27 May 1990

First Telethon Protest, London - 1990

Photo: Disability Benefits Consortium Rally, Albert Square Manchester, 27 October 1990

Disability Consortium Rally, Manchester - 1990

Photo: protest against Children in Need, BBC studio Leeds, 22 November 1991

Children in Need, Leeds - 1991

Photo: DAN protest outside Leeds Railway Station, May 1994

Leeds Train Station Sensory Garden Protest - 1994

Photo: the band Heart n Soul performing at the Independence Festival, Albert Square Manchester, 3 July 1999

Independence Festival Manchester - 1999

Photo: protester on the ground being arrested at DAN's disabled people's parking protest, Dale Street Liverpool, 1994

Accessible Parking Protest, Dale Street, Liverpool - 1994

Photo: Young disabled people from GMCDP being interviewed by the media at the march and rally for BSL, Trafalgar Square London, 8 July 2000

British Sign Language Recognition March And Rally, London - July 2000

Photo: a March protesting against austerity, Oxford Road Manchester, 4 October 2015

Anti-austerity March, Manchester - 2015