Blindness has brought to Sir Robert Bolam, aged 47, of Boundary Cottage. Dipton, near Stanley, Durham, happiness he has never known before. Fourteen years ago Mr Bolam, while acting as an official shot-firer. was rendered sightless by an accident. But that was only the start of a new life for him. He built himself a workshop which adjoins his house, and it is here that he spends the greater part of the day. Mr Bolam has made a threevalve wireless set and gramophone. In addition he is an expert mat-maker, chair and table constructor. Attached to his cottage is a large plot of land, upon which he raises produce, goats, end hens. He is never idle, and is always busy working for himself or his neighbours. Work, he savs. has been his salvation.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 14
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