‘I remember a lot of heartbreak and tears as their babies were taken away’

Little is known about Prospect House, a now-demolished home for mothers and babies on the Wirral. Nothing about the facility has ever been published in the media, despite it playing host to decades of traumatic separations between women and their newborn children. A few months ago, The Post’s Mollie Simpson came across a group of people who are searching for their long-lost families.

She tells their stories in this top read here…

The Post source: The lost mothers and babies of Prospect House