This weeks What If Friday is all about the cool factor. What if Steve McQueen was an amputee, would he still be as cool? Would he have been considered cooler due to the fact that he was an amputee? Aside from McQueen being considered ‘The King of Cool’ and his love for motorbikes, he was…
This week’s What If Friday is all about beauty! Audrey Hepburn, a rare beauty would she have been less beautiful if she had prosthetic limbs? If she were to have lost half of her legs half way through her career would she have continued to work? If someone is missing a limb does it make…
What If Friday continues this week with the man who got us through the Second World War. Here is Winston Churchill but not as you know him! Often thought of as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th Century, would that have been any different if he were in a wheelchair? …
In the coming weeks we are going to be posting images of the famous people, past and present but they won’t be as you remember them… What if…? Marylin Monroe was in wheelchair, would she still be as iconic as she is today? Would she have been seen as any less attractive? What if the…
14 April 2015: What an evening at the beautiful and accessible St. George’s ‘Hawksmoor’ church, in Bloomsbury. Surrounded by a chandelier of light musicians took to the stage whilst the audience quaffed champagne, purchased by donation. Entry to the event was only £15 and over £1000 was raised on the night and will help provide a…
Blue Badge Style ‘Mix’ Concert is only a few weeks away now so we thought we’d share some information with you about the musicians who will be playing at the concert. The BBS ‘Mix’ Concert is on the April 14 2015, 7.30pm at St George’s Bloomsbury, London. Howard Goodall is a broadcaster, composer and writer who…
A number of designers & architects have been tested for a unique gene that scientists say can account for a lack of ‘common sense’ intelligence. Before now the idea of a gene that can account for this type of ‘Intelligence Gene Marker’ has been regarded as a spurious theory. But Neurologists in the little known…
What to See The National Galleries Scotland are showing Roy Lichtenstein’s work from the 13th of March 2015 until 10th of January 2016; so there is plenty of time to go see this collection. The exhibition is going to be shown across three rooms, as part of the ‘REFLECTIONS at Modern One, the display will bring…
The 1st of March was International Wheelchair Day and to celebrate this we put together a bar crawl around the City of London. Somewhere where access can be difficult due to the number of old/ listed buildings and cobbled streets. You can see Part 1 here, where we met a variety of accessible lifts, proving any building…