During the WWII my parents lived in Upton Park, West Ham in East London. I was shocked to find out just yesterday that my sister, who was born during the war was actually born in The Hall, East Haddon, Northamptonshire. Why on earth was she born there? So I was fascinated to discover this webpage which suggests that St Mary's District Nurses' Home, West Ham, a maternity training hospital, was damaged by bombs during World War II and that the Ministry of Health Emergency Maternity Hospital at East Haddon Hall, Northampton was staffed by Plaistow Maternity Hospital. I would be most interested to hear from anyone who knows any snippets of history about the link between maternity hospitals in Plaistow and East Haddon to further explain how my sister came to be born in East Haddon.