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I am trying to locate the boy who was born in the bed next to me in East Dulwich Hospital in August 1988. I have never met him and I do not even know his name but I understand he was abandoned at birth. I had such a fortunate upbringing surrounded by my family and I have thought a lot about what my life would be like without that support structure. I am trying to reach this boy so I can learn about his life and see if he could benefit from anything which I could give him.


I have been contacting charities like the Children's Society, the NSPCC, Spurgeons Children's Charity and Adopt London South. I have also tried the archives of the local newspapers. The main challenge is that I do not have his name and given I am not a family member there are privacy issues here. The second issue is that with COVID a lot of the archives in Southwark/London are not functioning as they normally would.


Does anyone here think what I am trying to achieve is at all possible? Does anyone here know people who worked in the maternity ward at East Dulwich Hospital in 1988? Does anyone have any thoughts on how I could find an intermediary to contact this person on my behalf and see if he would be open to talking to me?


Many thanks for any thoughts!

Alex

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