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Kevin's pictures are very poignant for me. Particularly the one of the red door as my mother would have carried me through there in July 1963. I was born in Middlesbrough General Hospital, after which my birth mother and I lived in Hopedene for 6 weeks until my adoption was arranged through York Adoption Society. Some of the accounts I've read about the treatment of mothers in Hopedene don't make pleasant reading and, since she died before I could trace her, I'll never know what our time there was like.