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Patricia's mother's grave at Park Prewitt Hospital in Hook near Basingstoke in Hampshire. Other patients at the Hampshire mental hospital are also buried there. |
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The tablet that Paticia laid at the foot of a sapling in memory of her mother, Dorothy Ellen Gillard and others who shared her grave |
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A sapling planted by Patricia, beneath it is the memorial stone to her mother, Dorothy Ellen Gillard |
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Mother's grave
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Patricia Smith is 84 and it was only nine years ago that she located her mothers grave - a mother she'd last seen in 1936. Patricia is undoubtedly a woman of grit and gumption. During World War II she worked as a submarine welder. But at the age of 14, she came home from work to find that her mum, the bedrock of her existence, had disappeared. She tells her story.
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If you listen to the interview on this page, Patricia mentions the hospital where she says her mother is buried. Later she realised that it's the wrong one. For those of you who have enquired - Patricia's mother is buried at Park Prewitt Hospital in Hook, Basingstoke, Hampshire. |
