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Re: Quarry maternity home,
« Reply #63 on: Friday 07 March 14 12:51 GMT (UK) »
My great grandmother, Olive Brockelsby, was a servant here at the time of her marriage in 1885. 
The Quarry was a large stone house of three floors and attic rooms above, set in its own grounds between Wragby Road and Sewell Road, built for Robert Swan by 1872. The property was sold by the Giles family to the Diocesan Board of Finance in 1943.

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Re: Quarry maternity home,
« Reply #64 on: Tuesday 06 May 14 14:37 BST (UK) »
Is there any chance somebody knows if the maternity home also carried out terminations ? My mum can only remember vaguely that she was taken to a clinic of some sort on Sewell Road when she was about 12 or 13 . I've searched and cannot find any type of clinic there . Thank you :)

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Re: Quarry maternity home,
« Reply #65 on: Tuesday 06 May 14 15:18 BST (UK) »
damson82,  Welcome :)

I would think you have a task on your hands there .

just wanted to say Welcome to Rootschat   :)

Eilleen.
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Re: Quarry maternity home- photo
« Reply #66 on: Tuesday 06 May 14 20:59 BST (UK) »
The 'Home' is still there but is now owned/leased by Lincoln University and is used as student accommodation. They have no information on its previous usage. Lincoln Archives in St Rumbold Street may have some info though.
I visited the place a few months ago and took photos in B&W and colour and am happy to email to anyone interested. :)

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Re: Quarry maternity home,
« Reply #67 on: Wednesday 07 May 14 15:40 BST (UK) »
The County hospital is near the Quarry , maybe that's where your Mum went. It was a lot smaller at that time but had various clinics.

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Re: Quarry maternity home,
« Reply #68 on: Friday 11 July 14 11:03 BST (UK) »
Not sure if I'm doing this right or even on the right page.
However, I think I was born at The Quarry, process of elimination, I know I was born at a M&B home on Wragby road on Dec 22nd 1959.
My Mum collected me by taxi on the 3rd February 1960 and my adoption was completed in June.
Not sure about making contact with anyone but how do I go about getting an original birth certificate, I understand I have to go for counselling being born before 1975, is this definitely necessary?
My BM's name was Margaret and she came from Peterborough.
If anyone reads this and knows about me, don't worry, my adoption was hugely successful but as I get older I want to know a few more details.
I have no intention of intruding if it's not wanted and I blame no one, I know how hard things were in those days.

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Re: Quarry maternity home,
« Reply #69 on: Friday 11 July 14 12:58 BST (UK) »
YoLo. :)

Would just like to say well come to Rootschat .

Eilleen.
EXTON, from Rutland, Stamford, Boston, Lincoln. LANES, from Coleby,to Bracebridge Lincoln.WAKEFIELD,PROUDMAN Cheshire and  Stafford.<br />PINDAR, MOORE, ,CHAMBERS mostly from Lincolnshire.
LAING from Elgin ,Scotland.
 HADDELSEY from Caistor,and Grimsby Lincolnshire.                   
 Parfitt, Le Gros ,Le Sueur, from Jersey.
Martin, from Doncaster  to whelyn garden city, London.
BINT, Worchester, in Australian mint.

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Re: Quarry maternity home,
« Reply #70 on: Friday 11 July 14 13:14 BST (UK) »
Lincolnshire County Council
Children's Services Department, Orchard House, Orchard St, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1BA

this is the first place to try.
EXTON, from Rutland, Stamford, Boston, Lincoln. LANES, from Coleby,to Bracebridge Lincoln.WAKEFIELD,PROUDMAN Cheshire and  Stafford.<br />PINDAR, MOORE, ,CHAMBERS mostly from Lincolnshire.
LAING from Elgin ,Scotland.
 HADDELSEY from Caistor,and Grimsby Lincolnshire.                   
 Parfitt, Le Gros ,Le Sueur, from Jersey.
Martin, from Doncaster  to whelyn garden city, London.
BINT, Worchester, in Australian mint.

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Re: Quarry maternity home,
« Reply #71 on: Friday 11 July 14 13:54 BST (UK) »
Thank you Eilleen, I'll do that, it was weird seeing the photos of the house, ridiculous but it seems familiar.
My Mum would've been there too with my older Brother who was also born at Wragby road Lincoln a couple of years earlier.
It seems crazy nowadays that she could just come and get me and drive off, she used to say she asked about my BM and was she ok and they said she was fine and with her own Mother, it made her sad to think her dream of a baby daughter was also the heartbreak of another woman.
She used to send photos of my Brother and I to the home for a few years but it kind of died out over time.
I think she hoped they would be passed on to our respective BM's.
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