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Now this is a retirement home

PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:40 pm
by JAS
Amazing how bored you get when there's no footy and you're waiting for your quiz fix :lol:

This place got mentioned on QI last night so I couldn't resist looking it up. Shame they closed it down...kind of place I'd have put my name down for :lol: :wink:

Haslemere home for the elderly
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This old peoples' home located in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved a certain notoriety when in September 1960, Gladys Elton, an 81 year old resident of the home, for reasons best known to herself conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and necessitated the treatment for shock of five other residents.

The same home went on to achieve more "fame" the next year when another resident, 87 year old Harry Meadows killed another 3 residents through dressing up as the grim reaper and and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe! As a result of this the home was forced to shut.


Regards
JAS

Re: Now this is a retirement home

PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:42 pm
by Psyber
JAS wrote:Amazing how bored you get when there's no footy and you're waiting for your quiz fix :lol:

This place got mentioned on QI last night so I couldn't resist looking it up. Shame they closed it down...kind of place I'd have put my name down for :lol: :wink:

Haslemere home for the elderly
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This old peoples' home located in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved a certain notoriety when in September 1960, Gladys Elton, an 81 year old resident of the home, for reasons best known to herself conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and necessitated the treatment for shock of five other residents.

The same home went on to achieve more "fame" the next year when another resident, 87 year old Harry Meadows killed another 3 residents through dressing up as the grim reaper and and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe! As a result of this the home was forced to shut.


Regards
JAS

Yes it would have appealed to me too.

Re: Now this is a retirement home

PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 11:43 pm
by bayman
Psyber wrote:
JAS wrote:Amazing how bored you get when there's no footy and you're waiting for your quiz fix :lol:

This place got mentioned on QI last night so I couldn't resist looking it up. Shame they closed it down...kind of place I'd have put my name down for :lol: :wink:

Haslemere home for the elderly
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

This old peoples' home located in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved a certain notoriety when in September 1960, Gladys Elton, an 81 year old resident of the home, for reasons best known to herself conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and necessitated the treatment for shock of five other residents.

The same home went on to achieve more "fame" the next year when another resident, 87 year old Harry Meadows killed another 3 residents through dressing up as the grim reaper and and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe! As a result of this the home was forced to shut.


Regards
JAS

Yes it would have appealed to me too.


what ? an 81 yo stripper appeals !! :? :? :? you must be sick :shock: :wink:

Re: Now this is a retirement home

PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 11:46 pm
by JAS
Haha....no silly. As a hetro female a stripper of any age doesn't exactly appeal to me :roll:

But I love the idea of dressing up as the grim reaper and tapping on the window :twisted:

Regards
JAS

Re: Now this is a retirement home

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:07 am
by johntheclaret
JAS wrote:Haha....no silly. As a hetro female a stripper of any age doesn't exactly appeal to me :roll:

But I love the idea of dressing up as the grim reaper and tapping on the window :twisted:

Regards
JAS


Reminds me of the Steptoe and Son film. "Give me back my body"

Re: Now this is a retirement home

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:42 am
by Psyber
bayman wrote:
Psyber wrote:
JAS wrote:Amazing how bored you get when there's no footy and you're waiting for your quiz fix :lol:

This place got mentioned on QI last night so I couldn't resist looking it up. Shame they closed it down...kind of place I'd have put my name down for :lol: :wink:

Haslemere home for the elderly
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

This old peoples' home located in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved a certain notoriety when in September 1960, Gladys Elton, an 81 year old resident of the home, for reasons best known to herself conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and necessitated the treatment for shock of five other residents.

The same home went on to achieve more "fame" the next year when another resident, 87 year old Harry Meadows killed another 3 residents through dressing up as the grim reaper and and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe! As a result of this the home was forced to shut.


Regards
JAS

Yes it would have appealed to me too.


what ? an 81 yo stripper appeals !! :? :? :? you must be sick :shock: :wink:

I was assuming I'd be about 90, and it was the Grim Reaper thing that really appealed! :lol:

Re: Now this is a retirement home

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:38 pm
by JAS
johntheclaret wrote:
JAS wrote:Haha....no silly. As a hetro female a stripper of any age doesn't exactly appeal to me :roll:

But I love the idea of dressing up as the grim reaper and tapping on the window :twisted:

Regards
JAS


Reminds me of the Steptoe and Son film. "Give me back my body"


Haha...reminds me of this classic too :D :D :D

"It's a Mr Death or something. He's come about the reaping"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UBQFXQUqxE

Regards
JAS

Re: Now this is a retirement home

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:55 pm
by TroyGFC
John Howard's looking for a retirement home, perhaps send him a link! :D