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Updated Graham Meikle was a lover of the Great Outdoors When Graham Meikle carried out his first appendectomy it was in less than ideal circumstances – aboard a mail ship in the south Atlantic two days out of Cape Town. He had just decided working in Africa wasn’t for him and was sailing back to Britain when the call went up for a doctor. The young Edinburgh University medicine graduate swiftly obliged, diagnosed acute appendicitis and advised the captain to return to shore immediately. The master refused. The mail could not be late. Meikle was left with little option. He had observed the procedure but never actually performed it himself. However, he held his nerve and, with the assistance of a fellow passenger with some anaesthetics experience, plus the ship’s first aid kit, he operated successfully – despite the patient starting to come round during surgery. ....
Merseyside school was first in the country to have its own landing ground Take a look back at the forgotten school which later relocated to the Lake District Huyton Hill Preparatory School Airfield, Huyton, 1934 (Image: Historic England) A former Merseyside school was the first in the country to have its own landing ground, which saw pupils being picked up from school by light aircrafts. Located at the end of Victoria Road in Huyton, Huyton Hill Boys’ Preparatory School educated five to 15-year-olds and began with just a handful of pupils in a large semi-detached villa. According to Knowsley ARK, as pupil numbers increased, the adjoining villa was bought to accommodate them and later a third property was also added. ....