I Have No Memory But I Want To No What It Was Like Where I Was Born And Lived For The First Two Years Of My Life
A Memory of Emsworth.
Hi I was born in 1968 in england and moved to Australia with my mother and father in 1970
on my birth certificate it says i was born in northlands Emsworth I was wondering if anyone out there knows of any hospitals there
And can give me some information about where I could of been born as I want to no about my history or any photos
I have tried to find a red cross hospital but nothing seems to come up or I might be looking at something wrong
I was 2y and my sister was 3y wen we moved to Australia and I want to no my history of my life
because for as long as I can remember I've never fitted in here living in Australia
I feel theres something missing
Be nice if there is some one that could help me with where I could of been born
cause I wana figure out me as all my life living in Australia I feel I dnt belong here
I cant go back to live
I came on my parents passport ....
I've meet some of my cuzzas auntys uncles on face book and Ive h connected with them like I wish my family here was like ...... I want to learn about the hospital I was born in and why my parents in the 60s felt it would be a better life for my sister and I to move to Australia for a better life
But all my life I feel lost living here and never fitted in I'm still trying to under stand why I'm feeling this way
So if some one can help me to tell me what it was like where I was born and where we lived with my grandparents on my mothers side in chichester be really nice to no what hospital and chichester was like in the 60s plz I cant ask family questions cause nobody got to no my mother and my sister and me by the time my mothers siblings grew up we were in Australia
I hope I can get history of some kind to fill a void in my heart kind regard tracy green
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I have just read your post, having been born in Northlands Maternity Home in 1965 and then having lived in Emsworth, down the road from Northlands until my adult life. My parents remained in my childhood home in New Brighton Road, Emsworth, the same road as Northlands, until their deaths a few years ago.
So, to let you know about Northlands. It was a lovely Victorian flint-clad detached house not far from Emsworth railway station in New Brighton Road.
I have found a helpful link giving FAR more detail than I can ... here it is (from Emsworth Museum): http://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/exhibits/show/property/northlands
Very sadly, Northlands was demolished in around 1980 to make way for the then-new A27 bypass between Portsmouth and Chichester. It wrecked the lovely character of New Brighton Road and further broke Emsworth into bits ... there already having been a bypass that broke the town in two a few years earlier. But down by the harbour, the town retains its lovely fishing charm.
Years after Northlands was demolished, I went for a walk to as near as I could get to where it had been. There was some golden rod, a garden flower, growing wild in the hedgerows. I thought that this flower would have been the great great grandchild of the golden rod that would have been growing in the gardens when I was born ... and no doubt, when you were born a few years later.
I hope you see this and that this gives you an anchoring sense of where you came from. All the best, Vicky
As for Chichester, it is a beautiful market town ... and apart from the fact that the four roads which meet in the middle at a market cross are now pedestrianised, it's virtually unchanged. You'll find all sorts of images on Google of both Emsworth and Chichester and if you want to find more, then go to the website of the Emsworth Museum.