children's home or hospital Dunoon 50s, 60s

[MonicaL]

Wow, great result!

Monica 

[Daniel Reilly]

Museum Man,
Thank you so  much for this. I was beginning to doubt myself. I'll make a point of visiting the museum next time I am in Dunoon. Cheers.

Daniel

[Mary brown sneddon]

Hi Daniel my sister and I were there in the 60s it was a terrible place ran by nuns my husband took me there a couple of years ago to try and locate it but it has been demolished and is now a police station it was a charity run by quarriers it was called Catherine Mary home I only remembered it because my sister was Catherine and I was Mary how weird was that we were from carntyne in Glasgow hope this helps

[amanda doherty]

Hi I am looking for information on any one who was in the dunclutha children's home in the 60's. My dad and his 2 brothers and one sister were put in to the home. My dads name is George Smith.  Any information would be greatly appreciated.

[Brian McKechnie]

Hi,

I attended the Catherine Mary home in the early 1960s. It was run by a lovely couple who were very kind to me as a wee 5 year old. It was run in conjunction with a charity to provide holidays for children whose families could not afford the cost of a family break. I went to Dunoon a few years ago. The building is still there, though it looks smaller than I remember it. It was still there 5 years ago. I went a couple of years in a row and had a pleasant time as a small child.

[museum man 2]

Have not had time to fully check this out but am sure the one you are talking about is what is now known as Ellis Lodge. It is small and very close to where the Catherine Mary Homes were. It might even have been connected. I have a picture of it somewhere with the name of the organisation you are talking about on it. Will post again when I am more sure.

[Jammo]

It was the Catherine Mary children's home. I was sent there in1951 when I was 9 years old. It was a truly dreadful place run by sadistic staff. The memory of my time spent at that place still haunts me to this day.

[Gordon Bucher]

Hi, regarding Dunclutha Children's Home. We have a Facebook page called " Dunclutha Children's Home"..if you join the group a lot of people may be able to assist with any search that you may have.

[AJSully]

An email I received today ironically refers to a previous shipmate from the USS Sam Houston regarding what was then a child and his desire to locate him. I will attach the article from our ships newsletter of the time. The child, who was probably 5 or 6, name was Angus Naylor.

Excerpt from today's email: in the text of the piece, Jim Terrel wrote to the effect that while he couldn't put names with the faces of the men that organized the event, he could remember the name of the child he hosted that day: Angus Naylor."

This has struck a cord not only with the sailors involved in the event but the rest of us who served aboard the Sam Houston.

Any information would be appreciated.