Fishlocks Wales : A Light Of Dark, The story of Cardiff Institute for the Blind

Season 6 Episode 4: A Light in the Darkness, Trevor Fishlock tells the remarkable story of Jamaican-born Frances Batty Shand, who founded the Cardiff Institute for the Blind in 1865 after witnessing suffering on the city's streets. Beginning as a workshop where a small group of visually impaired men made baskets for carrying coal to steam ships, it grew rapidly and provided employment for about 100 blind people by the year 1900