Summary
A great-grandmother who adopted a baby after her own child died is speaking out to help her daughter find her birth mum. She tells her story for the first time to Liz Lamb
In August 1945, housewife Nora Bell and her miner husband Henry were eagerly awaiting the birth of their first child. It was an exciting time for the devoted couple, especially as they had been told that 21-year-old Nora would never be able to have children.See the full content of this document
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Tragedy That Led to a Happy Family
Sadly their joy and anticipation was shattered when a stillborn baby was delivered in the Princess Mary Maternity Hospital on the Great North Road in Newcastle.
"It was a very sad time," says Nora, now 84, who has lived alone in a council house in West Denton since Henry's death in 1989."I was upset bec...See the full content of this document
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