Binsted, Herschel Road

History of Binsted, Herschel Road

1906

Postcard to Miss Heath, Binsted, Herschel Road 1906. Photo ?Cambridge

Postcard to Miss Heath, Binsted, Herschel Road, 1906. Photo ?Cambridge

1913 Binsted

Lucy, Lady Braybrooke

Hon. Alice Neville

The 6th Baron Braybrooke was for 50 years until his death in 1904 Master of Magdalene College Cambridge

1918

Dowager Lady Braybrooke died in December 1918 aged 83

1937

Lady Hope

1939-45

This was the army Area HQ. The District HQ was at St Regis House in Chesterton Road.

1962 Binsted

James Hamilton Doggart

Wikipedia extract:

In May 1918, he persuaded the Admiralty to accept him as a surgeon-probationer and began his first job in medicine, as an anaesthetist. There were no antibiotics or blood transfusions. The only anaesthetics available were chloroform and ether. His notes from the period express particular distress at wounds involving the knee-joint, and the regularity of gangrene-induced amputations.

The quality of Jimmy’s work earned him a transfer to HMS Sikh, a newly built destroyer. Its mission was to escort troopships across the Channel, and to carry out anti-submarine patrols. Jimmy’s medical duties were limited to treating engine-room artificers for burns and distributing medicines for venereal diseases. His literary abilities were exploited with the job of keeping code systems and other confidential books up to date, and with the unenviable task of censoring letters.

If he was lucky to escape a German submarine attack in the Channel, he was even more fortunate to survive influenza, contracted while on leave in Cambridge. This was no normal ‘flu bug, but a pandemic that swept the world. It would claim more lives than World War One itself. In hospital, Jimmy saw young men who had survived the Somme killed by influenza. Thanks to a kindly nurse who gave him extra quantities of castor oil, Jimmy recovered within a month, just in time to celebrate the Armistice declaration.