Re: 69 Buckingham Street,

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> Hi
> You probably know by now but I think 69 and 69a Buckingham Street,
> Aylesbury was the site of the "Mid Bucks Shelter and Maternity Home". It
> may also have been called Putnam House. It was also the address from the
> Mid Bucks moral Welfare Association in 1951. I think that basically it was
> a home for unmarried mothers and was particularly full during the Second
> World War. The person who I know was sent there in 1940 said that it was
> Dickensian! I was given this information by Samantha Baxter from the
> Buckinghamshire CC Archives
> David
>

Hi everyone,

David, if you're still watching this thread, I wonder if you could ask your
friend if she remembers Edith Caroline Crease who also was at Putnam House in
1940. I am trying to trace my mother's birth mother.

Thanks a lot!
David O

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