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S I have to make three post before I can message you, So maybe a bit more info about the home
It was 1967 when I was sent there my baby was born in March so I must have gone there aboutlate Jan as I remember you were supposed to be there 6 weeks before and then 6 weeks after so you could breast feed the babies before they were taken from you....how cruel was that?
  I had to be confirmed while I was there as they wouldnt baptise my baby until I was..so I then had to have  religeous  instruction with the priest ,cannot remember his name.  and then tell him all my sins the worst a mortal sin apparently sleeping with a man out of wedlock....
  I remember one nice nun called Sister Assumption, she was very young, and not a bit cruel like the rest of them...the difference when it was visiting time on a Sunday was amazing they all turned into sweet things...Anyone there at the same time as me, I love to hear from you.
     Val

Hi I was sent to Assisi mother and baby home in Hammer lane in 1967, I was 16 at the time and my parents were ashamed of what I had gotten myself into, and so was dispached there...I think I can honestly say it was the scariest time of my life, We were made to scrub floors and polish wooden flights of stairs on our hands and knees right up to going into labour...church every morning before breakfast...really early.the nuns took all our money and we were allowed ancouple of pounds to go to the village once a week for baby cream talc  etc..it was so creepy and dark i spent so much time crying there....After my baby boy was born in March I had him christened there but then decided I would rather die than leave him there for some other family to have ....My Mum eventually gave in to my pleading and came and got me and my baby...so it was all for nothing really...It has left awful memories of Nuns creeping about in the dark...and felling totaly alone. so much for the catholic religon....So glad they close all those homes down ..They were getting money for our babies it was so corrupt..I cant think of anything nice to say except the other girls I met there were just nice girls who had made a mistake and were truly paying for it...Val McFerran Hope this helps