Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Hello

I am looking for information on the Church Of England run unmarried mothers home Home of The Good Samaritan Waverley House Victoria Road Grappenhall.My mother was born there in 1967. I believe it opened in 1949 and closed in 1983.
It was used by Ashton Under Lyne Adoption Society.

I believe most of the ladies sent here were from Liverpool. Did you stay at Waverley? Any information given will be treated in the strictest of confidence.

Please pm me

Many Thanks

Kerry

Hi
Waverly house is still open but as an elderley care home.

Thank you, yes I have visited and have taken some pictures, also the owner was kind enough to share some information.

Do you remember Waverley at all?

Hi Kerry,
Just a friendly nudge about putting your email address up on a public forum. I suggest you edit your post and remove it because it is open to being collected by spammers and others via web bots and used for spam and other 'nefarious' schemes.

People on the forum can always contact you confidentially via the PM [Private Message] facility. This is accessed via the PM button at the bottom left of your message window.

Dickiesam

Hi
Only as an elderly persons care home. I have trained some of the staff a few years ago. Its a lovely old building. I hope you find the information you need

Thank you for both kind replies, I have edited my original post.

sue do you remember the old chapel at all? Or Mrs edgerton smith, lived next door and ran the mother and baby home?

Hi
Sorry I dont remember, I only visited a couple of times

Thank you anyway sue, its nice that you remember it, was beginning to think I was going barmy-there seems to be a wall of silence!

I think the problem might be that you are looking at such recent years, there is usually either a 75 or 100 year closure on records of such establishments.

Thank you Mary I didnt realise that, I hoped someone would remember something, even maybe the shops that might have been on victoria road, or anything really

Victoria Road is purely residential, I would think that any shops that may have been mentioned would have been in Latchford (the other side of the Ship Canal) no more than a couple of hundred yards walk away. I maintained the telephones in Grappenhall from 1965 until the mid 90's and visited the Home frequently. I don't recall a chapel being there, although I only worked on the phones in the main house.

Hello Joe

Thank you for your answer, can you tell me a little bit of what you remember of the home please? Maybe anything about the owner or the nurses-even how the home appeared? I know its a big ask but any little snippet of information means more to me than I can ever explain-since so little information survives even the tiny details are important.

Many Thanks