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Ivybank Childrens Home

A Memory of Farncombe.

Memories of Ivybank children's home...Dotto the dog. Open fires. Huge entrance hall. Large staircase. Massive garden. Watching steam trains. Aunty Bonnie. Auntie Theresa with Tim the dog. Auntie Bonnie's friend we had to call Uncle John (creep). Walks to school over the railway bridge through the occasional steam from the trains. Not much laughter. Sunday school. Food delivered to the dining room via dumb-waiter.

Added 05 October 2011

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I was a child at Ivybank from about 1971 to1974. It was an awful place run by Auntie Bonnie who was an unintelligent, cruel woman. I remember Uncle John who was very creepy, probably a pedophile but in those days we couldn't even think about reporting him. We just tried to protect the younger girls from him. No not much laughter. I remember the dumb waiter and auntie Iris who was te only housemother who treated us with kindness. Auntie Constance was probably not unkind but just very limited intellectually. Would love to hear from anyone who was there or who knows about the home.
By honor.pierre on Fri Mar 9th 2018, at 1:26 pm
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I was a child at Ivybank from about 1971 to1974. It was an awful place run by Auntie Bonnie who was an unintelligent, cruel woman. I remember Uncle John who was very creepy, probably a pedophile but in those days we couldn't even think about reporting him. We just tried to protect the younger girls from him. No not much laughter. I remember the dumb waiter and auntie Iris who was te only housemother who treated us with kindness. Auntie Constance was probably not unkind but just very limited intellectually. Would love to hear from anyone who was there or who knows about the home.
By honor.pierre on Fri Mar 9th 2018, at 1:27 pm
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