epw044561 ENGLAND (1934). The J. E. Hanger and Co Ltd Prosthetic Limb Manufactory, Roehampton House and surrounding residential area, Roehampton, 1934

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Title [EPW044561] The J. E. Hanger and Co Ltd Prosthetic Limb Manufactory, Roehampton House and surrounding residential area, Roehampton, 1934
Reference EPW044561
Date May-1934
Link
Place name ROEHAMPTON
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 522198, 174074
Longitude / Latitude -0.24116322580401, 51.451956545783
National Grid Reference TQ222741

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Froebel College

Dom
Tuesday 31st of March 2020 12:36:07 PM
Downshire House

totoro
Monday 13th of March 2017 10:49:24 PM
J E HANGER The British arm of this company met a difficult time in the 1980s when it was discussed in parliament (Hansard, 26 Nov 1986, 29 Jan 1987, and other dates). The Company had been taken over by BTR plc (British Tyre & Rubber Co. Ltd) and a management/worker conflict arose. Hansard reports (1987) indicated the intent to cease manufacture in Roehampton due to an industrial dispute. The company began many years earlier... The British company was established as a separate entity by the son of James Edward Hangar, around 1915, when the First World War provided many men requiring assistance. Roehampton was the HQ. James Edward Hanger Senior was born 1843 in Virginia (USA) and joined the Confederate cause, but within 24 hours (before he had signed his enlistment papers) his left leg was blown off by a 6 pound cannon ball and he became the first amputee of the civil war. He was fitted with a wooden leg with which he was unhappy and he designed his own, producing "the worlds first articulated prosthetic leg with knee and ankle joints" receiving Confederate Patent 155. A more technical description says his invention was "replacing the then used catgut tendons of the ‘American Leg’ with rubber bumpers to control plantar and dorsiflexion" Read more in Enabling the Human Spirit: The J.E. Hanger Story Paperback – 2003, ISBN-13: 978-1891231988

totoro
Monday 13th of March 2017 10:43:01 PM

John
Monday 6th of October 2014 06:07:59 PM

John
Monday 6th of October 2014 06:01:22 PM
Queen Mary's Hospital

John
Monday 6th of October 2014 06:00:51 PM
Roehampton House (at Queen Mary's Hospital)



GRADE 1 LISTED



1710-12 by Thomas Archer. Alterations to the main house and addition of advanced north and south wings 1910-13 by Sir E Lutyens



Seven-window centre block linked by five-window quadrants to the wings.

Stone central feature comprising entrance flanked by Doric pilasters supporting entablature and broken segmental pediment, and semi-circular-headed window at first floor flanked by fluted Corinthian pilasters.

totoro
Monday 13th of March 2017 10:46:22 PM
Roehampton Lane

John
Monday 6th of October 2014 06:00:11 PM

User Comment Contributions

Image of the Roehampton works in the early years, around 1924. No indication of photographer or original copyright owner, published over 70 years ago.

totoro
Monday 13th of March 2017 10:37:58 PM