Brett

Yeah, well, anyways, at the time, Notting Hill was known as one of the worst neighborhoods in London.

Isn't it funny how things change?

But it was cheap, and they were able to find a place with respectable neighbors.

Always important when you're moving into a new neighborhood, particularly one that maybe is not so nice.

Downstairs, this was one of those places with sort of a subdivided,

flat i don't know exactly how to describe it but essentially had an upstairs apartment then you had a downstairs apartment i think you might even had two downstairs apartments

People are trying to make ends meet in Notting Hill at this time.

And downstairs from them in their house at 10 Rillington Place lived an older couple.

And in fact, the husband was a postal clerk and a former police officer.

So not a bad place to bring a child into the world.

And Geraldine was born on October 10th, 1948.

Match made in heaven, right?

And, you know, this is one of those things where in the right circumstance, this is wonderful news.

Right.

But not the case for these two.

The two were barely making ends meet and Beryl decided.

There was no way they could have a baby in this situation.

And instead, she wanted to seek an abortion, which were illegal at that time in England.

Tim was adamantly opposed to this, at least at first.

But Beryl sort of didn't care what he thought.