Where was I born

[Fish the Mod]

Can anyone give me the exact address where I was born. The only information I have is that was called the White something marternity ward near the Bishops Avenue in Finchely North London. It was a big white building once owned by Gracie Fields and bought by Harringey Council as a marternity ward. I would love to know the door number and street and I believe it is now back in private hands.

[dothawkes]

The area south-east of the North Circular Road has more affinity with Hampstead Garden Suburb, of which it is an extension, than with the rest of Finchley. Expensive houses remain in the Bishop's Avenue, heavily protected, (Footnote 5) although even there some have been divided or rebuilt. In 1977 there were plans to replace the Towers, former home of the singer Gracie Fields, with 'Europe's most luxurious home', for an Arab buyer. (Footnote 6)

From: 'Finchley: Introduction', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6: Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey with Highgate (1980), pp. 38-55. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22501 &strquery=Gracie%20Fields. Date accessed: 24 August 2005.

[Octavius]

I believe it was called "The Towers" details of which can be found here under Zone 3 East side.

http://www.barnet.gov.uk/environment_transport/planning/images/bishops-avenue.pdf

[Octavius]

Incidentally, the Towers, sold for around �10 million in 1992 � a phenomenal price at that time. Its features included an island with palm trees in the middle of its indoor swimming pool.

[textnician]

I was born in 1945 at the North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton, the local one for the family home in Hornsey, and Mum & I were then moved to "Gracie Field's house in Bishops Avenue". Therefore possible that the latter was for convalescence, rather than actual birth, in an age when 10 days recuperation was de rigeur after a normal delivery?