Finding my family
Victor Hall
I want to tell you my life story.
I have had hard times and good times. I am a survivor of institutions. It is important to hear my story to stop things like people having to live in hospital happening again. I have done well in my life because I have always worked hard and always kept trying. It's a good time now because of all the things that I do.
The conference is about families and my story shows that it was hard for my family to keep in touch with me. Finding a relative has been very good. Knowing my family history is very important to me.
I will talk about:
- Being born in Gressenhall, a workhouse in Norfolk
- My experience of living at Little Plumstead Hospital in Norfolk
- My life after leaving hospital in the 1970s
- Losing contact with my father and my mother moving to Canada and the importance of my relationship with my brother
- My happy experience of finding a relative that I did not know I had and finding out more about my family history.