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Lincolnshire / Re: Quarry maternity home,
« on: Tuesday 16 March 10 23:31 GMT (UK)  »
Now, that's interesting... The Quarries!

And a decent amount of staff too, quite what I'd expect from a house of that size.

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Lincolnshire / Re: Quarry maternity home,
« on: Tuesday 16 March 10 22:02 GMT (UK)  »
You'd need more than one servant for a home that size, I would think.  My mum told me that she and some friends climbed onto the roof (through a small hatch) and sunbathed on walkways linking the chimneys!

Anyway, an interesting place and probably up for sale soon given the economic climate...  Anyone want to hazard a guess at the asking price?

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Lincolnshire / Re: Quarry maternity home,
« on: Tuesday 16 March 10 21:52 GMT (UK)  »
Big house for a single bloke ;)

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Lincolnshire / Re: Quarry maternity home,
« on: Tuesday 16 March 10 19:54 GMT (UK)  »
It's a very big property.  Just been looking at the aerial map Geoff posted and it's the biggest in the area as far as I can tell.  Very surprised that it's as late as the 1870's.  Actually, I have no idea why I thought it was older, maybe because it's crumbling and very dirty.  It's got new chimneys  :)

Google Maps places Eastgate House next door so I may have been wrong in calling The Quarry that yesterday.  I do know that a few years ago it was in use as a residential home for people with serious mental problems so I assumed the two were the same...  Maybe they are?

Here's a social services review of the home in 2009 if anyone's interested? 

http://62.73.173.233/CSCI/CRH/11/ES0000002611.V2000052982.R01.S.pdf

Anyway, this is the site of The Quarry on the map :)




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Lincolnshire / Re: Quarry maternity home,
« on: Monday 15 March 10 20:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hello all :)

I was there yesterday!  It's located at 18 Wragby Road, just outside the Cathedral Area in Lincoln.  It's a beautiful old building but in quite poor repair now.  I was born there in June 1967 and placed for adoption a few weeks later.  I found my birth Mother just before last Christmas and for Mother's Day we took a trip to see where I was born.  It looks uninhabited now.  We rang bells and knocked on doors in an attempt to get permission to wander the grounds but there were no signs of life.  I guess its days as Eastgate House Care Home are over.

My Mum has some fond memories of The Quarry.  She remembers it being very well maintained with a friendly staff.  They even had a man come to play guitar and sing to them each week...  Songs with religious and moral content as she remembers  ;D



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