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From: "R & M Dunn" <>
Subject: [EDB] RE: Thistle Street etc.
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:45:53 +1200



Hi to Sandra, Rochelle and others
I agree with all who have replied that *home* births
were the norm in those days. Even as has been
said in U.K up till the 1950's. My husband was born at home in
1946, in Surrey but I was born at Simpson Memorial Hospital,
Edinburgh, mainly because my mother was having twins!
I don't know what this hospital is like now but in 1945 it was a modern
hospital for mothers and babies!

I vaguely remember Thistle Street in similar style to Rose Street
when I was a child.... a bit sleazy and driech. On a return visit
in 1996, the same buildings, but up-market and trendy!
Regards,
Maureen
from cold, windy Palmy, New Zealand!



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