Bostin' babies and their parents help celebrate NHS, Windrush and the Black Country Living Museum
It was a case of Call the Midwife at the Black Country Living Museum as mothers and their children born this year came to celebrate 75 years of the NHS and the Windrush generation.
All the 75 babies present were born in the Black Country in 2023 and they and their families also got the first look at the new visitor attraction, a re-creation of the Lea Road Infant Welfare Centre in Wolverhampton.
The centre looked after expectant mothers and newborn babies, providing healthcare, maternity services, classes, advice and medication and even beds.
Call the Midwife is a popular television drama about a group of midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and there were plenty of the Black Country variety on hand at the museum to take care of the infants.
Over 450 parents got in touch when the museum appealed for '75 Black Country babbies' last month. The lucky ones - including some real life midwives – got free access to the museum for the day and the youngsters given a popular UnChained annual pass which will be valid until they are 16 years of age.
The attraction will tell stories about the foundation of the NHS, the impact of migration and the support and care that new and expectant mothers received in the Black Country - and officially opens on Monday.
