Many had a hard start in life, but they made Abbey Wells their home. Abbey Wells operated as a children’s home in the North Hampshire village of Woolton Hill from the mid 1950s until 1984. At least 23 boys and girls passed through its doors in that time. And they have staged a reunion decades later — one even travelling back from Ireland to be there. There were smiles and tears as the children revisited the rooms they once called home. Shirley Davis-Fox, who organised the meeting, stayed at Abbey Wells from 1959 to 1967 with her four siblings. “My life would have been very different if I hadn’…