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Lancashire / Re: Crossley Hospital, Ancoats, Manchester
« on: Monday 29 November 10 16:55 GMT (UK) »
They certainly are fab. I know it is outside the era i am looking into but these are great. Love old phots
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Lancashire / Re: Crossley Hospital, Ancoats, Manchester
« on: Wednesday 24 November 10 07:44 GMT (UK) »
It is probable that the ledgers went to the SA archivist in London. He did a search for me and found nothing with myself or my mothers name on it, even though it says I was born there on my birth certificate.
I would love to have a trawl through them and see if there was a name my mother may have used. I gave the archivist a list of possible aliases she could have used but other have come to light since then that would be available to her, one in particular being Collett. I have also learned that she was to be married after my birth and I was to be put up for adoption. This means that she could have assumed the name of her husband to be who I only know to be Terence or Trevor, my source being elderly and it was half a century ago. His name wasn't Collett, that is the married name of her Aunt Alice who lived in Prestwich not far from Ancoats.
Pearly. If you were there in the eighties it is possible that I met you when I came to the home the first time. Bewilderingly confused as I knew nothing of anything, armed with a birth certificate and the name of some woman I had never heard of before as "mother".
I stood in the delivery room and it is an image I will never forget.
I would love to have a trawl through them and see if there was a name my mother may have used. I gave the archivist a list of possible aliases she could have used but other have come to light since then that would be available to her, one in particular being Collett. I have also learned that she was to be married after my birth and I was to be put up for adoption. This means that she could have assumed the name of her husband to be who I only know to be Terence or Trevor, my source being elderly and it was half a century ago. His name wasn't Collett, that is the married name of her Aunt Alice who lived in Prestwich not far from Ancoats.
Pearly. If you were there in the eighties it is possible that I met you when I came to the home the first time. Bewilderingly confused as I knew nothing of anything, armed with a birth certificate and the name of some woman I had never heard of before as "mother".
I stood in the delivery room and it is an image I will never forget.
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Lancashire / Re: Crossley Hospital, Ancoats, Manchester
« on: Thursday 22 July 10 12:25 BST (UK) »
The SA had Mother and Baby homes all over Manchester. This was where single mothers went after their families threw them out. This was always about but became a viable business after 1923 when an MP made a speech in the House of Commons about these fallen women. They wanted to cut the welfare costs in a way that was reminisent of the Poor Law Reform of 1832 which itself resulted in an explosion of Workhouses. In 1910 there was a system in place to cater for single mothers on the welfare state, but they kept the whole thing secret from the young mothers as there was profit in adoption to re-colonise the empire with white blood lost in the Great War. Mothers were told lies and harrassed into giving up their babies, many of the children being put straight on a ship and taken to Australia, South Africa and Canada. When they got there they were given new birth certificates.
The flip side of things is that if the SA weren't there to cater for these girls, the alternative was a back street abortion and the greater hazard that involved. Many many girls would have died if it were not for the SA. You have to look at the whole picture.
The flip side of things is that if the SA weren't there to cater for these girls, the alternative was a back street abortion and the greater hazard that involved. Many many girls would have died if it were not for the SA. You have to look at the whole picture.
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Lancashire / Re: Crossley Hospital, Ancoats, Manchester
« on: Thursday 22 July 10 00:03 BST (UK) »
Hi all.
When I first saw my birth certificate i went down to the hospital. It was being used as a safe home for girls who were homeless at the time. I was given a tour and went to see the delivery room which I have to say made a lasting impression on me. The SA woman there was incredibly helpful but I think I was still in shock about finding out I had a different mother to the one I knew.
I obtained my mothers death cert back then (late 1980s) and last years discovered that she was to be married after I was born and put up for adoption. I have no idea who she was to marry though, other than his name was Trevor or Terence. When I went back there sometime in the 1990's the place had been demolished.
The SA in London were incredibly helpful and i couldn't thank them enough for their efforts. I have also read up much on the political and moral attitudes that brought about the proliferation of the Mother and Baby Homes that utilsed the hospital
When I first saw my birth certificate i went down to the hospital. It was being used as a safe home for girls who were homeless at the time. I was given a tour and went to see the delivery room which I have to say made a lasting impression on me. The SA woman there was incredibly helpful but I think I was still in shock about finding out I had a different mother to the one I knew.
I obtained my mothers death cert back then (late 1980s) and last years discovered that she was to be married after I was born and put up for adoption. I have no idea who she was to marry though, other than his name was Trevor or Terence. When I went back there sometime in the 1990's the place had been demolished.
The SA in London were incredibly helpful and i couldn't thank them enough for their efforts. I have also read up much on the political and moral attitudes that brought about the proliferation of the Mother and Baby Homes that utilsed the hospital
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Lancashire / Re: Crossley Hospital, Ancoats, Manchester
« on: Wednesday 21 July 10 13:25 BST (UK) »
Hi,
Newbie here but had to reply as I was (aparently) born at Crossley Hospital in 1959. My mum died though and that is where the paper trail ends.
I contacted the SA in London and they have no records of me or my mother being there.
That being so, I am now more interested in the history of the people who went through the system there and hearing their stories of the experiences they had around the time. I am sure my mother was there at some point but can't be sure I was born there even though it says so on my birth cert.
Royd, I am based in Maidenhead.
Newbie here but had to reply as I was (aparently) born at Crossley Hospital in 1959. My mum died though and that is where the paper trail ends.
I contacted the SA in London and they have no records of me or my mother being there.
That being so, I am now more interested in the history of the people who went through the system there and hearing their stories of the experiences they had around the time. I am sure my mother was there at some point but can't be sure I was born there even though it says so on my birth cert.
Royd, I am based in Maidenhead.
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