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 Posted: 23 February 2005 at 4:01pm |
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Yes, isn't it a loony bin now ?
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Jenny
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Posted: 23 February 2005 at 4:06pm |
That is just too easy! 
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big baggles
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Posted: 23 February 2005 at 4:10pm |
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my missus was also born at the stone......and her brother !
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need a stella and i need one now !
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Wolfie
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Posted: 23 February 2005 at 4:15pm |
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No Carlos, you got it all wrong. It's no longer a maternity home. (in the 70s sometime) The Council turned The Stone into flats, and gave the lease to a landlord to rent individual flats out. I lived there immediately prior to moving into CstP. It was a fantastic house, with wonderful georgian features, but it was falling down, it was in a very bad state of repair. Then 4 years ago the Council sold it at auction, and the first owner was a property developer who kicked all the tenants out, left the house empty and put it back on the market again 18 months later. It's now owned by a musical composer (Carl Lewis, if I've got the name right), and he's clearly spent zillions on it (new roof, new pointing, electrics, plumbing, blah, blah). I'd love to see the inside of it now.
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Wolfie
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Posted: 23 February 2005 at 4:16pm |
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We used to get people turning up at the front door saying "I was born here, can I have a look around". Baggles maybe Zoe was one of them.
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Guests
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Posted: 23 February 2005 at 4:17pm |
I am sure somebody told me it was a loony bin at some time. Maybe they were the loony.
It was a person called John.
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Eddie
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Posted: 23 February 2005 at 5:30pm |
 tobic wrote:
Wycombe Maternity Hospitol must be very old. I myself was born there in 1942. |
You probably mean the Shrubbery in Priory Road near the station tobic? Different place
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They say Kesey's dead; But never trust a prankster;even underground.
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Eddie
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Posted: 23 February 2005 at 5:33pm |
CarlosTheBrave wrote:
Yes, isn't it a loony bin now ? |
I was born in the Stone in 1949 and my eldest daughter was born
there in 1971. Cromwell slept there after the Battle of Oxford. His
troops ransacked and pillaged CSG.
As you well know Carlos the Stone in Aylesbury (the "loony bin" you so
deprecatingly refer to , and now closed) is somewhere completely
different
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They say Kesey's dead; But never trust a prankster;even underground.
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Guests
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Posted: 23 February 2005 at 6:24pm |
As it happens I didn't know that but I do now. Like I said, I was told it by somebody else.
Cheers Ed.
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Henry
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Posted: 24 February 2005 at 9:56am |
Eddie wrote:
You probably mean the Shrubbery in Priory Road near the station tobic? Different place
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My Mum used to work there.
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Keep the green belt green
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