William Reid Cunningham's Journal: Part 1

[ebb]

[Level - Public]So some of you may be aware that I'm working on my family tree at the moment, and that I'm lucky enough that my Grandmother, Jess Sinclair (McCall), has a heap of photos, documents etc which are being loaded up to http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/44167051/ ( Read more... )

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[huggirl]

Can't seem to see the family tree and I logged on, think I need credits or have to do the free trial, I would do but will need to track to make sure they don't start taking auto-payments after it's finished!

[unwholesome_fen]

Euston Grove mostly doesn't exist any more - it was a road running up to the station from Euston Road, now mainly taken up by the bus station and the plaza with its office blocks. The hotels are presumably long gone - I think they only things surviving from that era are the two GNWR buildings (now the Euston Tap and Cider Tap - well worth visiting for more than just historical interest!) The sleeper trains these days leave Glasgow an hour later and arrive (theoretically) two hours earlier, but I've certainly experienced nearly ten hour journeys on them as well, so perhaps not that much has changed there. A few minutes from Euston to Waterloo by taxi is probably better than you'd manage with today's traffic...

Antihistamines are one of the obvious major innovations since 1926 - bathing the hand in iodine might prevent infection, but as he writes, does nothing for the swelling. However I think epinephrine was in use by then, so presumably anaphylactic shock needn't have been fatal in those days if he'd had a more severe reaction.