Declan remembers that the women hoped to leave Ireland altogether and go to England. They started trying to make connections with relatives or friends there. Declan: "We're all up in the bedrooms because we're just all asleep in the one room"
When she was 14 years old, Elizabeth Coppin was sent to a place called Peacock Lane in Cork, Ireland. It was a laundry business run by a Catholic order of nuns. Elizabeth noticed bars on its windows.