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Heart Transplant Patient Keith Castle Visits Firework Party

1979 , Brafield-on-the-Green (Northamptonshire)

Cat no. 109968

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Footage of Keith Castle, the UK’s first successful heart transplant patient, visiting a fireworks party in Northamptonshire. He stands talking and laughing with two women, with the bonfire in the background. He then hands things – it is not clear what they are – to the children, ruffling the hair of one child.

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Fireworks; Medical patients; Heart transplant

Background Information

Keith Castle became the UK's first successful heart transplant patient when he had his operation in August 1979. "He became a celebrity almost overnight and would go to so many events, open a lot of fetes." - Keith Castle Jr., Keith's son - royalpapworth.nhs.uk Keith Castle lived for another 5 years after his transplant.

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Heart Transplant Patient Keith Castle Visits Firework Party

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