To ask if you know your exact place of birth?

[Toffeesgirl]

Not the City but the name and address of the hospital (assuming, of course, you were born in hospital).

I ask because I am filling in a form which asks just this. Now I was born nearly 60 years ago in a non-UK but European city (I am British). I do know the hospital was knocked down about 50 years ago but as Mum is no longer with us and my Dad is very confused, I don't have a clue which one. Google tells me that there was a mass building post-war clearance in the 1970s but, oddly enough, not a list of all the hospitals (sarcasm). I was registered at the British Consulate which just lists the city name as place of birth.

The form which asks for it, is an important document I need for a new job (bit like a dbs) but apparently this piece of information is vital! The office I spoke to is checking with a higher authority but in case I need to argue my case, I just wondered if this is a piece of information that everybody else is aware of.

Yes I do the building is long gone but the street address is still there

Yes, although it's long been demolished.

No - also born outside the uk (in europe), hospital is long gone, no idea which one it was!

Yes, I know the hospital and its approximate address, and could quickly find the exact address.

I was born at the Partington Maternity Home in Glossop at 5.36 pm.

No. It was a maternity home in south London that no longer exists

I was born in England and it's on my birth certificate.

Yup!

Just moved 5 mins down the road to the hospital. It was my local hospital my entire life but grew up further away than I am now.

My family moved around loads, 20 - 25 times before i was 18, and I know exactly where i was born, and where I was conceived. My nomadic family have tremendous memories of all of the moves. I recall v little!

Yes, but the hospital no longer exists. It was a 'women's hospital' Specialised in childbirth and gyny issues.

This has reminded me of all the other questions I wish I'd asked my darling mum before she passed away 😥

And also, how little official paperwork or information I have from my childhood. We moved around a lot and other than my birth certificate and a very grubby handwritten vaccination certificate, I don't have anything until we came to the UK when I was a teenager.

Ive googled hospitals in X in 196X but no joy other than one that was built in 1965, no joy. However, as someone has said, if I don't know it, I don't know it but I am intrigued as to why they need to know.

Yes, and my mum worked there.

Yes of course .

I'm 57 and yes i know

I know, even down to the ward.

The hospital is no longer there now though and is now city centre flats.

Yes. Like you OP I was born away from where my parents lived (altho' still in the UK) and it's been knocked down, so all I have is a name. I never saw the place again since I left it (aged 3 days).

This. Just use the name and address of one of the old hospitals. I work for an organisation where primary source verification is very important for certain documents, but we can’t verify with an organisation that’s not there, and it’s not the person’s fault. They may ask for something in lieu, such as an extra character reference, or other ID type document.

Yes I do. Although it's no longer there, it is (partly at least) now a Wetherspoons so I could find the postcode from that. The hospital DH was born in is the same as the one our DS was born in and remains the biggest maternity hospital in the area.

As it happens I do know, but I've been checked up on by the Government in a pretty detailed way a few times over the years, and never been asked to provide more that the name of the town or city, so I'm not sure you are really need to know the place and street number.

Ask yourself, what if you were adopted? An orphan? All you records went up a in a house fire as a child? Are all these people barred from this particular job because of something in history they had no control over?

If it is the same sort of form I fill out every 5-10 years, the advice is, just tell them what you know, just tell them the truth.

I'm really surprised someone is insisting on this. I was born in a home for unmarried mothers and adopted out from there. There is no reference to it anywhere, not on a birth certificate or anything. I know where it is cos my parents gave me a name and bizarrely I now live up the road, the home itself is currently a building site for new apartments. It would be quite possible I wouldn't know at all and simply couldn't answer the question. I certainly couldn't prove it.

Yes I do. And my sister (born in 1960) wanted her astrological chart read so got a copy of her records and it gave exact time of birth and a brief report from the midwife/nurse that 'mother and baby doing well'!
Is there a registry of births where you were born? Your birth will be recorded somewhere and you could apply for your certificate or any info.
I do recall my father having difficulty getting his birth certificate (born in India in the 1920s), but got round it somehow.

Yes but I lived down the road from it for 10 years went to school across the road and loads of my relatives were born there

I'd just make it up. What are they going to do about it?

I was born in a huge Victorian house that was being used as a maternity home. I know exactly where. To be honest, a lot of buildings where people were born must have been demolished by now.

Yes I know the hospital I was was born in but it’s long gone and replaced by expensive apartments.
A quick google has given me name of street