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From: Ron Soutar <>
Subject: Re: [EDB] RE: Thistle Street etc.
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:28:25 +0800
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On the subject of home births my two neices were born at home in Edinburgh
in the late 1960's. It was still relativly common then.
regards
Ron Soutar f rom (sunny warm) Perth WA

R & M Dunn wrote:

> 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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