Hi everyone

[Leekoo]

Hi,my names Dave and i live in Worksop notts.I have been a class 1 diabetic all my life.I was diagnosed in 1961 due to the fact that i was always asleep as a baby.In 1966 i went to st monicas diabetic home in kingsdown till 1969.I fell across this site by accident while trying to find out more about what happened to st monicas and the kids i was there with but .Alas it closed in 1971.Children after that date were shown the dos and donts in the home instead of being sent away from there families.The home was run at the time by a Joan Deihl, we all had to call the staff either aunty or uncle If anyone is interested there is some history of these homes on a site called Hidden lives revealed, because apparently there were several in the u.k..So if Terry Reid from Beeston notts or Tracey Stafford from Manchester are out there i am looking to find you and catch up with what we did

 

[steveBN1]

Hi Dave. A good few years late but I only just saw your post about St. Monica’s. I was there in around 1964/5, I think, and remember Aunty Joan and Aunty Minnie, who seemed to be living in Deal and some of us visited in the Dormobile mini bus occasionally. There was another ‘aunt’ whose name I can’t recall. Oddly, I can still remember the phone number (Kingstown 4444). Apparently my grandfather knew Joan and she had me sleep close by at night for a while in a little bed outside her bedroom. Not sure why, though. The local primary school I didn’t like much, whose head was Mr Pritchard. Overall, staying at St Monica’s was pretty good.