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I believe that it was called Assisi the home Nr. Haselmere.  Hi I my mother was at Assisi in 1962 and from what she said it sounded awful although in all honesty she didn't want to talk about it much!   I have written a novel which is fiction called Skin Deep which includes a place like this called St. Catherines.  The book has four stories of women who all are connected with the adoption process but all their stories are very different.  It particularly explores the mother daughter relationship and its aim is to help heal emotions from all sides.  Interestingly enough there is a long leafy lane to the home, I did not know that!  Anyway the child's emotions also draw on my own experiences of being an adopted child.  I went to see Philomena a few days ago and thought thank goodness the truth about what it was like for those poor mothers is now out but I wanted to put over in the book that it was not just in Irelan also UK.  Love to all who have suffered needless to say I am a very lapsed Catholic.  I was adopted through the Catholic Children's Society who helped me trace my mother in the early nineties.  I believe that it has merged with the Children's Society now.  They were very helpful but the information I received shocked me at the time also being told a lot were forced  to breast feed and they had no choice to keep their babies. Jennifer L