I need your help to purchase 13 Small memorial plaques. 1 for each of the13 Booth Hall Babies. Their memory may be forgotten, like every other poor soul who lies beneath the abandoned field. I want to prevent this and purchase 13 custom plaques, with each of the Booth Hall Babies names and information upon them.

I will place each plaque at the position of each of the Booth Hall Babies graves, so they do not get forgotten.

Please help me. Here is a video of my first visit to the cemetery.

In the summer of 1939 facing imminent war with germany, a decision was made to evacuate the whole of Booth Hall Children’s Hospital in Manchester to the potential safety of Calderstones Hospital.

217 sick children and babies were brought by train to calderstones hospital.

Out of 217, 18 sadly died whilst at the hospital,

5 babies were returned to their families in manchester for burial

The remaining 13 booth hall babies, for whatever reason remained, and were buried in a small cluster graves in the most prominent position of the graveyard right at the front.

R.I.P to each of these Booth Hall Babies:

Isolated in life, they now remain uniquely isolated in death, and now, robbed of the gravestones which previously confirmed their identity, the 1172 men, women and children remain hidden beneath the neglected field of Calderstones Cemetery.