THE STORY OF A LAMBETH COMMUNITY
Dorothy with her adopted children, early 1950s, courtesy Dorothy Kerin Trust Raphael’s, in Ealing. The following year, thanks to a gift from a friend, she was able to renovate and open a second property. These were the first of seven such houses she owned by the end of WW2. Dorothy also found the time during this period to adopt nine children. After the war and needing to find room for her family, Dorothy moved to Spelhurst in Kent. In 1948 she raised the money to buy and restore Burrswood near Tunbridge Wells and to establish it as a Christian healing centre that is still functioning today. Dorothy died on 26 January 1963 and was buried in St John’s Churchyard, Groombridge, Kent. Burrswood is now an independent, fullyregistered Christian Hospital, which brings together mainstream medicine and Christian healing, a model Dorothy pioneered. Burrswood welcomes people of all faiths and none, to its 220acre estate, to the hospital as well as to the Outpatient Department for physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and counselling; they may also visit the Church of Christ the Healer, bookshop, gift shop, tea room and grounds.
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Burrswood today, courtesy Dorothy Kerin Trust