Helpless and bereaved: how Covid separated blind couple after 47 years

Peter Wilkins calls for hospital and care home visits to resume in England after death of his wife, LindaCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFor their 47 years of marriage, Peter and Linda Wilkins were inseparable. Both born without sight, they met as teenagers at Henshaws school for the blind in Greater Manchester, where they became some of the best braille readers their teachers had ever produced.Linda went on to become a professional braille proofreader and Peter a typist, the pair living together in the middle of Stockport. They loved listening to music and delighted in finding mistakes in braille manuscripts. “We’ve always been braille perfectionists. Whenever we read a book and found a mistake we’d tell each other: ‘They’ve not put the quote marks right here,’” said Peter. Continue reading…
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