Casgliadau Arlein

Folding wheelchair used by David Phillips from around the 1920s up to his death in 1949, in Hermon, west Wales. The wheelchair is made from a metal frame with a cotton canvas covering to the back and seat and padded armrests. The folding wooden footrest has the name of the model on each side: 'The Peero Invalid Chair'. This type of collapsible wheelchair would have been used in the period before the establishment of the NHS. Its owner, known as Dafi (1875-1949), was born with Cerebral Palsy and was cared for by his siblings in later life, mainly his two sisters, Elsath and Sarah. He also had a brother born with CP, who died aged 19.