Stillbirth: ‘Finding my baby’s grave gave me comfort’

In 1961, Lilian Thorpe gave birth to a stillborn baby boy, but she never had the chance to hold him in her arms or kiss him goodbye before his body was taken away.

For six decades, she did not know what happened to his body or where he had been laid to rest.

Standing in front of his grave, marked only by a number, she touches the ground.

“Your mummy’s here,” says the 86-year-old.

“Now I know where he is,” she says, adding: “I just wish I’d have seen him.”

Lilian, who lives in Stalybridge in Greater Manchester, believed her little boy’s body had been “thrown away” after he was taken from her.

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