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Offline BillyF

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Re: My birth
« Reply #99 on: Tuesday 07 March 23 14:25 GMT (UK) »
I can see my mother "now", holding a sheet of newpaper to the fire to make it draw.

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« Reply #100 on: Monday 17 July 23 19:01 BST (UK) »
An article about the birth of the NHS gave the information that women would pay around £10 per week for a hospital birth.

 I know that my mother was in the home for 2 weeks so possibly paid what would have been a hefty sum for my parents. My father was a military policeman in the SIB stationed in India until 1946, my mother had been a book-keeper at the local steelworks.