Posted by Ian Edmondson-Noble on June 09, 1998 at 09:42:37:
A post from Fiona on CentreBoard reminded me of a piece of family history
that explains why I'm here...
>Did you sleep out under the stars? I've done it in Scotland and Jordan
>but not in the Lake District. And not with a camp fire! Fiona
My father (born January 1925) slept out in the Lake District on the shore of
Windermere every night for two periods, with a ten month break, between 1935
and 1940. He was a patient at the Ethel Hedly hospital in Calgarth Park
at the north-east of the lake. He was suffering from TB of the spine,
and to start with this was the only known treatment. He was strapped flat on
his back to a bed, unable to move from it. He could see the lake and glide
paper planes over the grass sloping down to it. His mother visited once a
month (bar one month when snow stopped the train getting beyond Kendal)
and brought him Arthur Ransome books...............