Sisters of Community of St John the Divine,who inspired the hit BBC series, can no longer afford to live in their community homeThe final surviving nuns who inspired the hit television drama Call the Midwife are being forced to sell their community home because they can no longer pay for the repairs and upkeep.
The five sisters of the Community of St John the Divine, or who fill avidly followed all four series of the homely BBC series approximately nuns delivering babies amid the post-war poverty of London’s East End,said their decision had hit them like a bombshell but they had no alternative in the face of a massive repair bill.
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Source: theguardian.com