Local to me is Erskine Hospital, which celebrates its centenary this
year. It was founded during WW1 as a military hospital and has continued to
treat servicemen and women ever since. They are holding a couple of bike events
to raise funds for the Hospital.
Next Sunday
(29th May) they have their ‘Erskine Motorbike Meet’.
Idea is to
ride from Erskine to Spean Bridge, work out your own route but take in a number
of checkpoints where you will be given a playing card. Stay the night in/around
Spean Bridge, then make your way to their home in Edinburgh collecting more
cards on the way. Person whose cards make the best poker hand wins.
Good excuse
for a weekend in the Highlands!
You can read
more about the history of the hospital here, in it there’s this chilling sentence
concerning the level of casualties during WW1, hence the need for military
hospitals:
‘In 1915, in the first two
hours of the Battle of Loos, more British soldiers died than the total number
of casualties on both sides on D-Day 1944.’
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