I had a most delightful cycle run to Epsom. Leaving Scotstoun1 at 6.15. I went via Haslemere, Milford, Godalming, Guildford + Leatherhead reaching Epsom about 9.20. After some enquiries at telegraph boys, policemen, scavengers, nursery maids +c I found Tom Alexander’s house Calderfall in Kingsdown Road.2 He was still in bed but I got breakfast about 10. He was looking wonderfully well + gave me a most hearty welcome. Then he got a car + drove me to the Cottage Hospital, The Durdans, Walton on the Hill and Epsom Downs.3 I left Epsom at 1.11 + came home by the same route. It rained between Leatherhead + Godalming + I was pretty wet. I had tea at the Red Lion near Milford4 + reached Scotstoun at 6.5 having ridden 63.56. Got Southern Reporter + papers from Mrs Mack.5
1 Leaving Scotstoun, Haslemere, where he was staying, Dr Muir headed to Milford, grid reference NGR SU948,425, Godalming, SU966,436, Guildford, TQ004,506, Leatherhead, TQ167,571 and Epsom, TQ210,617.
2 Thomas Anderson ‘Tom’ Alexander (1858-1925), medical practitioner, son of David Carnegie Alexander and Margaret Scott Anderson. He received his medical education in Edinburgh, Berlin and Vienna, M.B., C.M.Edin. 1880 and M.D. 1884. In practice around Epsom for 41 years. During the First World War he was involved in establishing the Epsom Grand Stand Hospital for Wounded Soldiers. Honorary surgeon to the Epsom and Ewell Cottage Hospital and following his retiral some time after the War he became honorary secretary to the same. [“Dr. Thomas Anderson Alexander.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3379, 1925, pp. 630–630. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25446469. Accessed 2 July 2023.]
3 The Cottage Hospital (at the east end of Station Road, junction of Alexandra Road, Epsom), The Durdans Stables (between Epsom and Epsom Downs), Walton on the Hill and Epsom Downs.
4 The Editor assumes that this refers to the Red Lion Public House which sat just short of the crossroads at the centre of Milford as Dr Muir travelled south west along the Portsmouth Road between Godalming and Haslemere. The public house is shown on Ordnance Survey six inch Surrey Sheet XXXVIII.NW, published 1919. It is now a Tesco Express.
5 Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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