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Long Whatton Maternity Hospital Reunion
Saturday and Sunday 26-27th September 2009
On Saturday and Sunday, 26-27th of September 2009, with the kind permission of Lord and Lady Crawshaw and in conjunction with the Long Whatton History Society and the Diseworth Heritage Centre, it is proposed to hold a reunion for all the babies, born at the Maternity Hospital Long Whatton, between September 1939 and March 1945. The event will be open to the general public. This being the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Maternity Hospital on the 24th September 1939.
An exhibition will be held at Whatton House and also at the nearby Diseworth Heritage Centre.
This will be the 2nd reunion, the first was held by the late Lord Crawshaw on June 22nd 1997. On that occasion more than 250 “babies” and their relatives attended the reunion.
We have through our web pages on leicestershirevillages.com, received emails from around the world from people who were born at the Maternity Hospital and were keen to find out more about their birthplace.
If you were born at Whatton House, your birth certificate should read as follows;-
Now this can be misconstrued, a comma should be placed after Long Whatton, ie you were born at The Maternity Hospital, Long Whatton, which was part of Castle Donington Rural District. So you were not born in a Castle, but in a Stately Home
If you would like to be kept abreast with developments with the reunion, without obligation, please email us at :-lwhs@greasley.gotadsl.co.uk
Last Updated Sat, 30 Aug, 2008.