A wheelchair basketball match at the Stoke Mandeville Games, 1954
A wheelchair basketball match at the Stoke Mandeville Games, 1954. A photograph of a wheelchair basketball match, part of the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1954 - a world games for paraplegics, where teams from 14 nations competed. It was based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, a pioneering hospital in the treatment of spinal injuries. The 1954 games were the third Stoke Mandeville Games, described as precursors to the Paralympics, held from 1960. Shown here are competitors from Lyne Green settlement, Cheshire, and Duchess of Gloucester House, Middlesex. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/National Science & Media Museum/SSPL via Getty Images)
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January 01, 1954
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