Westmeston Marernity Home

A Memory of Ditchling.

I was born at Green Hedges Westmeston in February 1944. My father who was in the navy had been sent back to sea so my mother was alone except for my brother of 2 . He developed whooping cough so the person she was staying with didn’t want them there anymore. (She obviously didn’t want whooping cough either). I understand the local doctor helped her to find somewhere to stay (she took my brother up to London and handed him over to her sister in law - hope they didn’t contact too many people). She did not go with them because she was booked into the maternity home. I wonder if anyone knows who the doctor might have been? I think he was a Good Samaritan. I don’t know how long it was before she was able to take me back to be reunited with my brother and grandmother.
I was of course too young to know anything about this but it makes me sad to think about it.
Rosemary Stanley

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