School-Maternity Home-School
During WW2 the pupils were evacuated and the school turned into a temporary Maternity Home.
The Doctor attending the home was only part-time, but always on call.
The Doctor lived a few houses away and at night time he hung a length of string from a bell next to his bed and out of his bedroom window. So a nurse could run to his house to raise him if he was needed.
Such was the case at 2:30am on the 10th of June 1942.
I was born shortly thereafter.
John E. Hutt, now living in Lewiston, NY, USA.
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RE: RE: School-Maternity Home-School
Dear John Hutt
I am a local historian in Ripley and have answered quite a number of requests for help from people who were born at Ripley Court duing WW2.
Apart from knowing that the Maternity Unit of Westminster Hospital was moved to Ripley at least from 1941 to 1943, very little is known here about it. I would like to ask if you can provide any more information about your mother's experience here.
Regards
John Slatford
Comment from John Slatford on Wednesday, 24th January 2007.