Broadhill Maternity Home, Keymer Road, Burgess Hill. (Now It Comes Under Ockley Lane, Hassocks!)

A Memory of Broadhill.

I was born at Broadhill Maternity Home in 1949. It was sold in the autumn of 1946 and in 1947/48 it was known as Green Hedges. The new owners had previously rented Green Hedges Maternity Home in Westmeston, then Broadhill came up for sale and it was sold by Captain Large (who bought the whole estate but the big house was resold), to Alistair M . Elliott and Margaret M. Munro and the Matron was Edith Elliott. The home was for mothers expecting babies including mothers who were single, and had to have their babies put up for adoption. Broadhill is a wonderful house and was converted in the 1960's into four separate private homes. The house was rebuilt in 1901, completed in 1902, by George William Ryder a Bond Street banker and diamond merchant who died in 1923 and is buried in Keymer churchyard. The owner after the war, when it was turned back into a private home after the Army had finished with it, by William Maine Treglown from New York. There were hundreds of babies born and adopted there and I would love to hear from anyone born there between 1947-1951. I have found nine Broadhill Babes to date, all with very interesting and different stories. So please get in touch.

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