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What town were you born in ?

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nanna8 Fri 19-Sept-25 00:29:57

Don’t say if you would rather not but curious as to the,probably many different towns/countries,we were born in. For me it was
Sidcup ( then in a Kent, maybe London now ?). My children are Aussies as are all the rest, grandchildren and gt grandchildren.

grannydarkhair Fri 19-Sept-25 16:25:12

Stoke-on-Trent

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Fri 19-Sept-25 16:31:21

Portsmouth. My dad was in the Royal Navy.

4xGranny Fri 19-Sept-25 16:42:01

Stafford

Mel1967 Fri 19-Sept-25 17:31:59

Ramsgate, Kent

Harris27 Fri 19-Sept-25 17:34:34

Gateshead.

whywhywhy Fri 19-Sept-25 17:41:11

Sunderland

dustyangel Fri 19-Sept-25 17:46:14

Village near Leeds.

Marydoll Fri 19-Sept-25 17:55:17

Glasgow

Grannybags Fri 19-Sept-25 17:56:38

Tunbridge Wells. It should have been Maidstone but there was an outbreak of something that meant it was changed. Looks posh on my birth certificate!

I went to school in Sidcup Nanna8

LadyBridgerton Fri 19-Sept-25 18:04:50

Whitewavemark2

Pre-NHS so in a nursing home on Mutley Plain in Plymouth.

I’ve still got the bill. Middle of winter so bill included laying and lighting a fire in my room😊.

Midwife called Sister McAndrew Campbell.

Can’t remember doctors name

Bolton. I was born 6 weeks before the NHS started and my mother never let me forget it, as though it was my fault!

Allira Fri 19-Sept-25 18:11:24

Whitewavemark2

Pre-NHS so in a nursing home on Mutley Plain in Plymouth.

I’ve still got the bill. Middle of winter so bill included laying and lighting a fire in my room😊.

Midwife called Sister McAndrew Campbell.

Can’t remember doctors name

I worked on Mutley Plain and lived in lodgings there too!

But that was after you were born as I don't remember a nursing home there although the Eye Hospital was.
My first DC was born at Freedom Fields Hospital.

Marg75 Fri 19-Sept-25 18:55:57

My ds was born in Freedom Fields!!

Allira Fri 19-Sept-25 20:22:01

😀

Jane43 Fri 19-Sept-25 20:25:54

Malvern

Greenfinch Fri 19-Sept-25 20:40:27

Llfl mentioned Reading which is near where I live now. My three children were born there plus all six of my grandchildren and my daughter in law and her brothers and sisters as well as her nephews and nieces and sister in law making about 25 in all for Reading . Me? I was born in Woking.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 19-Sept-25 21:01:05

Allira

Whitewavemark2

Pre-NHS so in a nursing home on Mutley Plain in Plymouth.

I’ve still got the bill. Middle of winter so bill included laying and lighting a fire in my room😊.

Midwife called Sister McAndrew Campbell.

Can’t remember doctors name

I worked on Mutley Plain and lived in lodgings there too!

But that was after you were born as I don't remember a nursing home there although the Eye Hospital was.
My first DC was born at Freedom Fields Hospital.

It probably closed after the start of the NHS. I must get the bill out to see how much it was😊

Deedaa Fri 19-Sept-25 21:11:57

I was born in Perivale, Middlesex, although we were actually living in Acton.

My daughter was supposed to go to Wexham Park in Slough to have her first baby because her oxygen levels were low. However she didn't mention the oxygen and gave birth at Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, because she thought Ascot would look better than Slough on the birth certificate!

Hipsy Fri 19-Sept-25 21:12:13

Maldon, Essex

MG55 Fri 19-Sept-25 21:27:34

Manchester 😀

Musicgirl Fri 19-Sept-25 21:42:58

Norwich

FlexibleFriend Fri 19-Sept-25 22:09:46

London

crazyH Fri 19-Sept-25 22:15:39

Quilon

Shinamae Fri 19-Sept-25 23:58:20

Ilfracombe

Shinamae Sat 20-Sept-25 00:03:20

Whitewavemark2

Pre-NHS so in a nursing home on Mutley Plain in Plymouth.

I’ve still got the bill. Middle of winter so bill included laying and lighting a fire in my room😊.

Midwife called Sister McAndrew Campbell.

Can’t remember doctors name

I left home at 15 and Ended up in a bed sit on Mutley plain and I worked in the Lyons coffee/ tea house
I remember the landlady had to ring my aunt May (The only one in our family who had a phone) To make sure that it was okay that I was living in a bedsit in Mutley plain..

Coops74 Sat 20-Sept-25 00:07:33

Crewe.