A Canadian teenager went to the same pub in the UK to get her first legal dose of liquor where she was born.
It was Valentine’s Day 2002 when Isobel Casey was born in the toddlers’ play area of a restaurant, Mill House, in Wyton Cambridgeshire.
Shortly after her birth, her family immigrated to Canada.
Though the legal age of drinking in the part of Canada where Isobel lives is 19, the teenager went to the same pub where she was born to have the first drink of her life after she turned 18 this year.
Isobel managed to consume a few pints at the same spot that is now known as Hartford Mill.
Isobel’s dad Neil said: “It was really lovely to be back. We were met by lots of friends who I haven’t seen for a long time. The pub did actually burn down a few years after Isobel was born, but they’ve rebuilt it and it’s identical to how it looked before.
“It has changed a little inside, but there is still a ball pit, albeit a little smaller than before.
“Isobel loved it, she had two pints of Green King IPA and the barman was nice enough to allow her to pour a few pints too. She’s been thinking about coming to university in the UK, and this trip has really sold her on coming here.”
Isobel’s birth was a rather different one and was covered in a report by Cambridge News.
Her mother, Nicola, a nurse at Papworth Hospital at the time, was enjoying a cup of coffee with friends in the restaurant when she suddenly felt “one really strong contraction.”
She called Neil who came to her location the fastest he could. In a report to Cambridge News at the time, Neil said: “I left work at Papworth Hospital and met her 20 minutes later.
“As we went to get in the car, her waters broke.
“We put a hand under each arm and carried her back into the pub. We quickly called to get the fire doors to the kids’ play area open, and they had to get all the children out.
“It’s a bit different and we can always say, ‘that’s where you were born’. We are both very happy about it.”
Isobel is not the only one to be born in a location where people don’t generally give birth.
Last year, the story of a child’s birth at the O’Club in Toulouse, France, went viral. The club gave the baby a lifetime of free entry after he was born there at 5:30 am.
Local media reported that the club staff helped the mother give birth to the baby.
Marie-Helene, the club’s manager, said in a statement to La Depeche: “It was 5.30am, the club was just closing, There wasn’t a lot of people left in the place and one of my members of staff cam over to me and said ‘it’s urgent’.
“I could see that the woman was about to give birth. But we had to act quickly. A member of staff called the emergency medical line who talked us through what we had to do.
“The young woman didn’t seem too panicked but she was worried. Then the baby came out.”
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