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Originally Posted by anzac
There was a Mother and Baby unit located at "The Grange" in Wilpshire.
The Minute books are kept at Lancashire Records Office.
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I can confirm that the Grange was situated on the Corner of Whalley New Road and Hollowhead Lane at Wilpshire, there are now houses built on it.
It was originally a home for unmarried girls who went there to have their babies who wwere adopted, it later changed to a unit for 'out of control' teenage girls - only closed relatively recently, I can remember working in Wilpshire in the early eighties and it was still there - best end to it to be closed down and bulldozed, it must have caused an awful lot of misery in its time.