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Phil

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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #11 on: November 01, 2010, 11:43:53 AM »
Posted in error.
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janey

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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #12 on: November 01, 2010, 12:08:57 PM »
Hope i am not speaking out of turn but did you mean to post those photos there,
or were you having a senior moment. :)

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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2010, 12:33:59 PM »
Janey
 
You are right, when we get to a certain age the mind begins to wander. I'll put them where they should be
 
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Jacqueline

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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2010, 01:22:06 PM »
Missed those photos so the mind boggles. ;D
 
Should explain i attended Selly park girls school in the 60's so noticed loads of nuns.

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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2010, 01:52:13 PM »
Jacqueline
 
Nothing worth letting the imagination run riot, they were only photos I should have posted to the Nechells thread.
 
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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2010, 03:48:20 PM »
Janey
 
You are right, when we get to a certain age the mind begins to wander. I'll put them where they should be
 
Phil
Guessed as much i do it all the time

annecrofts

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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2010, 05:44:35 PM »
1 also attended selly park girls jaqueline  i left in july 1958, was there a convent near the school? i do remember the nuns in their black and white habits

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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2010, 06:05:41 PM »
I attended a Catholic School so you can bet I noticed a few penguins.
 
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Jacqueline

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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2010, 08:51:35 PM »
Annecrofts, Think we have spoken before. I left Selly park 1970. The convent was probably there for a number of years. The mother and baby unit was seperate

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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2010, 02:39:11 AM »
It was called "Woodville" - Mother and Baby Home - 176 Raddlebarn Rd.
I have a document that states my grandmother nursed her newborn baby there(he was born in Dudley Rd. Hospital(and my mum). They had three months to decide what to do with their babies - of course in the 1940's and war all around, there was no family payment for single mothers so it was usually adoption.


All the young mums would walk down to St Edwards Church on the corner for the baby christenings and to go to Mass (I know this because my Dad felt embarrassed when I told him what had been discovered of the past - because the local boys would go and tease them as they walked into Church!).


Father Hudsons Homes at Coleshill administered everything. Nan was there in 1944, but I read that Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy had a home there in 1949 and was christened at St. Edwards!

http://julie-mcneill.blogspot.com
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Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Reply #21 on: December 25, 2010, 10:52:02 PM »
Jewels63,
       Thanks for that. Did not know it was there in the 1940,s. Your gran must have been torn apart by this. I know because my mom had me in the mid 50's as a single mom but had a good family yet the stigma was still there. Unlike today.


 

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