"I had everything - guitar lessons, we went abroad every year, we went to Butlins each September, I always had nice clothes." These are the words of a Coventry woman whose birth mother was sent to St Faiths, a city mother and baby home and adoption agency in the 1960s.

As reported in previous articles, St Faiths is a Coventry institution which has been serving the city and wider region for over 130 years. Countless women, girls and children went through its doors, a Mrs Paton overseeing countless adoptions across a forty year period.

One of these adoptions saw a 20-year-old pregnant girl sent to St Faiths in 1964. Maureen Thompson of Peterborough was unmarried and already had one son. Her circumstances meant she couldn't support a second child. This is that family's story.

Born at Gul

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