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Pamela Saunders and Jennifer Browne got in touch to donate a photo album and other photos that belonged to their father, Jack Cosnett, who worked as a prosthetist in the old Limb Fitting Centre at QMH. They are pictured below with Trustee Margaret Dangoor in our museum.


Jack Dennis Cosnett was born in 1920, in 1934 he went to work at Hangers as an apprentice sheet metal worker.  In 1946 he went on a 2 year training course to become a qualified prosthetist.   Apart from working at Roehampton, he worked with the children at Chailey Heritage residential school and home for severely disabled children and was in at the very beginning of the thalidomide disaster in the 1960’s. He retired after working 50 years at Hangers, one of several companies with artificial limb manufacturing factories on the Roehampton site, manufacturing and fitting prosthetics.


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