Your birth town.

[summerdays]

Were any of you born at home? I know quite a few of my age who were.

All my siblings were, I was the only hospital birth, and of my children, only the first was a hospital birth.

 

[raleighnut]

Liverpool, the very centre before they knocked it all down and moved everyone to Kirby and canny farm and Runcorn. Shocking 70's planning which ripped the heart out of Liverpool. I was recently watching some old films online which brought home to me just what an effin disaster it was to demolish so much and move so many. My family moved out to old canny farm.

They did that to Leicester too, in the late 60s they demolished the 'Blue Boar Inn' the place Richard III spent his last night. Bet they wish it was still standing now.

 

[Drago]

In Manchester Gav's freedom fighter mates remodelled the town centre for them in the 1990's, and didn't charge the council a penny.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Were any of you born at home? I know quite a few of my age who were.

Dudley Road Hospital, Winson Green

 

[the_mikey]

I am a reluctant Bristolian, I still live there but I seldom venture into the city for anything other than to catch a train out of there...

 

[gavroche]

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Not wikipedia. They say it was named for the Duke of Orleans, and not for the city itself.

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The clue is in its title.

 

[marknotgeorge]

But how many are men of Kent and how many are Kentish men?

And how many are Londoners and don't want to admit it?

 

[Blue Hills]

Seeing as no on has asked i'll tell you. I started to pop out in Bramley Meade maternity hospital in Whalley,but they were having trouble in getting me out,so they transferred mother to Accrington Victoria Hospital where they successfully completed the mission. I often asked my parents and grandparents about this but was usually met with a "children don't ask about those sort of things,now go outside and play" reply.


Were any of you born at home? I know quite a few of my age who were.

I was born in bramley meade. Now posh flats i think. Apparently mothers were often given daily guinness for medical reasons. Those were the days.

 

[Blue Hills]

And how many are Londoners and don't want to admit it?

Genuine londoners are pretty rare these days.

 

[Blue Hills]

I am a reluctant Bristolian, I still live there but I seldom venture into the city for anything other than to catch a train out of there...

I've always had good reports of bristol. What's the problem with it?

 

[the_mikey]

I've always had good reports of bristol. What's the problem with it?

I don't know if there's a problem with Bristol, but I've never really felt part of it..

 

[ayceejay]

I was born in a little village in Wiltshire called Luckington the village has been gentrified since. I grew up in Chippenham tho' when it was virtually a company town (Westinghouse) I went back recently and it is unrecognisable any character the town had has been swept away by malls and shops. and all the pubs are estate agents

 

[srw]

I was born in a little village in Wiltshire called Luckington the village has been gentrified since. I grew up in Chippenham tho' when it was virtually a company town (Westinghouse) I went back recently and it is unrecognisable any character the town had has been swept away by malls and shops. and all the pubs are estate agents

Ha. In the town I grew up in (Abingdon) the character had been badly mauled by the installation of a dual carriageway town-centre ring road and a pedestrian shopping centre. One street was very useful if you wanted to buy a house or a pair of shoes, and completely useless for anything else.

 

[betty swollocks]

I was born in Kuala Lumpur.
Not on the least bit proud to have been born there.
I left when a few months old and have never been back and have no wish to go back.

 

[tyred]

no matter where I live Dublin will always be my home, in itself being Irish is pretty damn cool but being Irish and Dublin well thats just about as perfect as one gets

You Dubs always thought you were a cut above the rest of us. I'm a culchie and proud of it

Don't really have a home town. Grew up in a remote, detached dwelling surrounded by fields.

THE HILLS OF DONEGAL

Oh, night and day I'm dream-
ing of the hills of Donegal,

The heather on the hillside
and the sunshine over all.

And 'tis westward I'd he go-
ing across the ocean blue.

To wake again the happy
hours that long ago I knew.



II



/ mind the laughing valleys
that look up at dawn of day

To watch the dawn-light
creeping o'er the rugged
crests o' grey.

And I mind the linnets tril-
ling when the dark clouds
lift and go

And the grey hills send the
sunshine to the waiting
hearts below.

Ill

Refrain:

Oh, hills of Donegal,

To me you ever call

In every wind that wanders
o'er the wide and lonely sea.

And please God, if He so
wills.

Soon I'll see my Irish hills,

The hills of Donegal so dear
to me I

P. J. O'Reilly.