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[SWIMMER]

Honey my auntie lived in New Cross street, can't remember the number off hand, but I know it was the middle bit inbetween the chippy and the pub

Cowley Hill was my place of birth.

Edited by SWIMMER, 29 June 2011 - 01:19 AM.

[Honey]

I worked at Cowley Hill old site when it became the AHA

Edited by Honey, 29 June 2011 - 01:26 AM.

[soul225]

I was born at cowley hill 28 january 1959, my niece was born there in 1972 think she was one of the last before it closed.

[exile]

I was born in Hamer St, St,Helens on the 30th of September 1938, this was the night that Neville Chamberlain flew from Munich after his meeting with Hitler
declaring Peace In Our Time. As a result of this I was nearly christened Neville; still it could have been worse I could be called Adolf !

[SWIMMER]

Hi exile, I would have imagined that would have been the fate of many of the boys born in England at that time lol

[SKYMAN]

That Chamberlain was so weak ,good job we had Churchill on hand, they didnt call you Adolf did they? ha ha

[SKYMAN]

with ref to the vote there are other places in the area where one could have been born,

[tessmop]

I was born at Cowley Hill 2nd of July 1948 and my son on the 16th of March 1971,it closed in 1973 just after my friend had her son in March of that year.

[SKYMAN]

So thats what all the fuss was about DJ, i would have been having a pint in the vulcan around that time,
my wife and i lived in Powell st,,

[Graham]

Although I was always under the impression I was born in the Maternity Hospital at Cowley Hill, I recently has to get a full copy of my Birth Certificate (previously I onlly had the "short" version) which stated my place of birth as St Helens Hospital

[JFM]

I was born in Cowley Hill in August 1949 the first of my mams 5 children
The other 4 where all born at home
My eldest was born in Warrington hospital (I having moved to Earlestown which at that time was thought of as part of Warrington)but the youngest was born at home (1971) so it seems that home births where still common into the 1970s

[tessmop]

Yes JFM they certainly were I had my third son at home on the 5th of july 1978.

[tessmop]

Hi Phyll, did you work with a Sister Hamilton at Billinge hospital? if so she delivered my third son at home on the 5th of July 1978,she lived in carr mill road and had a son called Christopher,she is Irish and from Dublin.

[SKYMAN]

i was born in old whint hosital ,i wanted to be near my mother
she happened to be in there at the same time ,,,,,,,

[-Oy-]

Another Cowley Hill kid here - Christmas of '62 - it was a bit cowd apparently!