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Steve 27th April 2017 15:27

where were you born.... 1 Pic only.....
 
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Easy one to start the thread.....I was born here in 1960,the place has changed a lot over the years.

Where were you born 1 pic only!

Farmer John 27th April 2017 16:02

I don't have a photo, but the house I was born in was the house Charles Darwin was staying in when his "Origin of Species" was published.

Gordon Steel 27th April 2017 16:34

Where was I born
 
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I was born here in 1955, guess where????Attachment 79

Steve 27th April 2017 17:24

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Originally Posted by Gordon Steel (Post 1424)
I was born here in 1955, guess where????Attachment 79

Need a clue ?

Steve 27th April 2017 17:31

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Originally Posted by Farmer John (Post 1419)
I don't have a photo, but the house I was born in was the house Charles Darwin was staying in when his "Origin of Species" was published.

Somewhere in kent?

Gordon Steel 27th April 2017 17:35

Where I was born
 
OK, riddle me this - a stinking line of seats!!!!

Farmer John 27th April 2017 17:52

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Originally Posted by Steve (Post 1429)
Somewhere in kent?

Ilkley, Yorkshire, He was taking the waters. It was St Winifred's Nursing Home when I was born there, they even have a Blue Plaque, though it is for Darwin, not me. The Hydro where he was taking the waters became a teacher's training College, that's where I got the missus from. No plaque there.

Gulpers 27th April 2017 17:57

1953 - a good vintage
 
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Royal Maternity Hospital, 163 Rottenrow, Glasgow (Now demolished)

Chadburn 27th April 2017 18:01

Like Farmer John I have not got a photograph but I think they knocked the area down and put up a Parking Lot, I wonder if I could write a song about it, could be a hit.;) my Mother shipped us down to Malmesbury after the first bombing raid on Newcastle thinking it would be safer, unfortunately she did not take into account that it was on the direct route for German Aircraft bombing Bristol. We were on a Coach one day when one of the German aircraft decided use it for target practice, there were a number killed and many injured, fortunately myself, my Mother and my siblings got away with a few cuts from the shattered glass.

Gordon Steel 27th April 2017 18:08

Where I was born
 
Ah, the same place as gulpers but my picture shows what is left of the original building.
People make Glasgow!!!!

Chris Isaac 27th April 2017 18:28

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I was born in 1946 in this rather grand house.
It had been converted into a nursing home during the war and had been the home of a VERY famous singer of the time.
Where is it? and Who was the famous singer?

BobClay 27th April 2017 18:33

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Born here in 1946. Stafford General Infirmary (SGI.)

Top one took in 1992 and the building hadn't really changed at all. Bottom one shows it now. Much of the building gone and only the centre section left which is now offices. Red brick monstrosity to the left is a Currys. (There used to be a physiotherapy unit where that is and you could hear bikers screaming throughout the night as physio's practiced their dark arts down there.):D

ssr481 27th April 2017 18:56

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I was born here .. in 1963.. can you guess where here is and from where I took the photo?? :cool:

Varley 27th April 2017 18:57

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Originally Posted by Chris Isaac (Post 1441)
I was born in 1946 in this rather grand house.
It had been converted into a nursing home during the war and had been the home of a VERY famous singer of the time.
Where is it? and Who was the famous singer?

Farnham? Peter Pears?

Varley 27th April 2017 18:58

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Originally Posted by BobClay (Post 1442)
Born here in 1946. Stafford General Infirmary (SGI.)

Top one took in 1992 and the building hadn't really changed at all. Bottom one shows it now. Much of the building gone and only the centre section left which is now offices. Red brick monstrosity to the left is a Currys. (There used to be a physiotherapy unit where that is and you could hear bikers screaming throughout the night as physio's practiced their dark arts down there.):D

But I see there is a blue plaque to mark your arrival.

Kevjacko 27th April 2017 23:24

Well. I always thought I was born in Tynemouth infirmary. Told everyone that, put it on all relevant forms and data when required. Then about 5 year back we were at a family funeral, passing where Tynemouth Infirmary used to stand which is now flats. For want of anything to say to break up the funeral car silence I said to my daughter about 15 at the time, "see them flats, that's where your dad was born, used to be Tynemouth Infirmary".
My Mam piped up, "No you weren't.
"Course I was" I retorted, "I've put it on every bloody form I ever had to fill in for the last 47 years or so".
"Well you weren't were you, it was in a nursing home somewhere in North Shields, can't remember the name though, and I should know I had you" said Mam.
Daughter has of course never let me forget that I don't know where I was born. "Could have been anywhere" is the sinister point she keeps making.

jmilcon 28th April 2017 00:43

ssr481,, Portland, Oregon?

John Rogers 28th April 2017 01:49

Born 1931, sorry no photo of the Stable with the Star above it.

Chris Isaac 28th April 2017 08:31

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Originally Posted by Varley (Post 1449)
Farnham? Peter Pears?

Sorry but no.
It is The Towers in Bishop's Avenue (Millionaire's Mile) Hampstead.
It was the home of Gracie Fields.
Long gone now and replaced by a huge mansion owned by middle eastern interests.

billyboy 28th April 2017 10:08

Birthplace.
 
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Born here in 1942....

Biggles Wader 28th April 2017 19:19

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Originally Posted by billyboy (Post 1538)
Born here in 1942....

Newhaven East Sussex?

Rowana 28th April 2017 19:51

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Not exactly in a stable, but on a farm at least. A little village called St Cyrus, just north of Montrose on the east coast of Scotland. It was 1947, and the last farm where my Father used horses. I can just remember sitting on a pile of sacks at the front of a cart "driving" the horse - well, holding the reins anyway!

Picture is me with my Grandmother.

Alistair Macnab 28th April 2017 19:59

Born in Dalblair Nursing Home on Dalblair Road, Ayr. The building was eventually knocked down and a Volkswagen Agency erected in its place. Needless to say, I bought my first VW Passat station wagon there!
Alistair
(where's my avatar?)

Dartskipper 28th April 2017 21:34

I was born in 1951 at the Maycroft Nursing Home, Woodford Road, Wanstead, Essex. If you look it up on the web, you will find that Harry Roberts, who was jailed for the murder of 2 policemen at Braybrook Street, Shepherds Bush, was also born there. His parents were the landlord and lady of the George Hotel, Wanstead. (I went to Wanstead High School, just down the road in Redbridge Lane West. A famous alumni of my old school is Ronnie O'Sullivan, the snooker player,who's father did time for murder.)

Nice place, Wanstead. Very quiet.

billyboy 28th April 2017 22:16

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Originally Posted by Biggles Wader (Post 1641)
Newhaven East Sussex?

Spot on Biggles. No31 South road to be exact.

Richard 29th April 2017 09:28

St Marys
 
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Born here before any of this was built.

cueball44 29th April 2017 13:09

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Born here, long before the A63 "Clive Sullivan Way" was built. Strickland Street (opposite Albert Dock) HULL.

ART6 29th April 2017 13:40

I was born on a door that my father and his brother had hastily removed from upstairs and taken to the basement of our house in Tunbridge Wells during an air raid in WWII. I don't have any pictures of the house since Herman Goering ensured that it no longer exists. I did once attempt to at least find the street, but by then Mum and Dad couldn't remember exactly where it was so that was a failure.
Apparently my delivery was rapid, which my Dad always ascribed to the air raid. "Nothing like a few bombs nearby to shift the little bugger!" he was fond of saying before being hospitalised again by Mum!:D

Rodney 30th April 2017 19:43

Walthamstow, London E.17. I have been told by my cousin that I would need a visa or a dispensation from the local Imam to stop by and snap a photo of the house I was born in, so sorry, no photo.

tony allen 30th April 2017 20:19

constance st liverpool bottom cold water flat of what was called the landings railings on the next 2 floors.apptly called the landings in the middle of town 1941 cos thats were the bombs landed.site still has not been build on yet still waste ground

Andy 30th April 2017 21:13

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Here's my place of birth...not that there's ever been any Seventh day adventism in the family, just that it was a well regarded maternity hospital once upon a time.

kauvaka 1st May 2017 06:49

Front upstairs bedroom 32 Leeds St, Sandown, Isle of Wight, September 1940 so I guess the Battle of Britain was taking place overhead, but I can't remember that. A few kms from where the other end of my life is taking place in Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific. Still proud to be a Caulkhead.

Jolly Jack 1st May 2017 15:14

No picture but No.72, Birchington Ave, South Shields, Right near St Oswins church. I was such an ugly baby, the midwife slapped my dad!


JJ.

Engine Serang 5th June 2017 16:30

Born 1950 in the back bedroom.

Pat Kennedy 5th June 2017 20:21

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I was born just a bit left of centre, where I have remained ever since.

Malcolm G 5th June 2017 20:44

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The one with the gravel front (when I was there it had a privet hedge and a gate), the bedroom with the bay window.

My sister was well pleased - she got the day off school. :)

jg grant 6th July 2017 12:04

Myself, brother and sister and all my cousins were born in the same bed overlooking the Firth of Forth in the back room at 41 Edinburgh road Musselburgh. That was over a time frame from 1934/ 40. A significant number of Grants still live in that small stretch of road including 41.

Ray 7th July 2017 09:30

A mining village, Ryhope, Co Durham 1942.

sibby 7th July 2017 14:53

Hills Road, Cambridge 1943.

David 7th July 2017 19:31

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South Devon 1944

David
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