Things you didn't know about Taplow

I've been like a dog circling its sleeping place these past few days, working my way into the J. S. Haldane world of 1916 onwards. After years of assembling materials my working method has been to go a chapter at a time, re-reading everything until the shape of the story settled into my head. I've just taken a break to edit what has gone before, and on we go - the final years.
It stays impressive to me how seemingly arcane snippets of the Haldane story turn out to be someone else's obsession. This photograph of the Canadian Hospital in Taplow comes from the hospital's own memorial site.
The hospital was a project of the wealthy Astors in the neighbouring Cliveden estate. J. S. Haldane wandered into its history in early 1917, when he worked with the Candain gas victims recovering there. From this work stems the deep oxygen treatment we use in hospitals to this day. Medical advances are one of those few good things which emerge from wars.