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Coleshill Hall Mental Deficiency Institution
Yes, in fact in 1920 my maternal grandfather was born to his 32 year old mother, a domestic servant, out of wedlock and she was disowned by her family and taken into the Salvation Army hostel on Ladywood Road, Edgbaston. He was taken into the care of Martson Green Children’s Home and was later... -
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Coleshill Hall Mental Deficiency Institution
By chance I found an electoral role record for my great aunt who was in Coleshill Hall in 1939. She had a child when she was 15 and was committed to a mental institution as a result. She spent much of her adult life there. She was born in 1914 and I remember meeting her soon after she had been...