There was a steady stream of London women sent by their health authority to give birth at Cuckfield Hospital in Sussex in the 1940s-1950s. Just a thought for anyone hunting for a presumed London birth in this period and wondering about a Cuckfield registration.
My mother in law lived there and remembers the ladies taking walks round the village. Babies put up for adoption were also placed in a Cuckfield childrens' home, Horsgate House (now closed) from which she and her sisters fostered many babies until they were found permanent homes.
My mother in law lived there and remembers the ladies taking walks round the village. Babies put up for adoption were also placed in a Cuckfield childrens' home, Horsgate House (now closed) from which she and her sisters fostered many babies until they were found permanent homes.