Were you one of Dr Miall Smith’s patients? Share your memories by logging on today. She had met one woman who thought it was Hitler’s secret weapon! After I met her in her home in Guessens Road, she became frail and finished her days at the Elizabeth House in Panshanger. Although Bare Bones Mailsmith (ATPM review) is a fully-featured and highly customizable e-mail client, it does lack one feature that can be found in competing products like Outlook Express and Eudora: a palette or button bar that users can modify to suit their needs. Mailsmith is an award-winning extra-strength email client designed for Macintosh users. Since then, though, I realize that Mail.app has come a long way and Mailsmith, by most. ![]() I detailed all of this in my review at the time. Not only am I a huge fan of other BareBones software (these days, BBEdit and Yojimbo), but I just liked the way Mailsmith worked for me. When we talked about the early days of the Second World War and of the evacuees and the threat of a major offensive she told me that the only offensive she saw was an epidemic of German measles. At that point, I switched to Mailsmith, and have been there ever since. Of how she visited primitive cottages at Black Fan (since demolished) where there was no electricity, no mains water or drainage, or of one of her daring-do missions in crossing the branch railway line in her little car, tying a scarf round the gate to keep it open, hoping that she would not encounter a train chuffing round the corner as she made her way across and through the several fields and tracks to make a house call in Digswell. When I interviewed Dr Miall Smith for my book on the history of the town in the mid 1980s, she was approaching the end of her life, but she was still as bright as a button and happy to talk about the early days of the town. Tragically Dr Fry died in 1930 but Dr Miall Smith became something of an institution in WGC, bringing hundreds of Garden Citizens into the world and worked tirelessly to improve health standards in the town, alongside Celia Reiss, Richard Reiss’s wife, before the arrival of the National Health Service. She was closely followed into the town by Dr Furnival in July 1922. News of their arrival travelled fast, and within half an hour the first patient was knocking on their door asking if the lady doctor had arrived yet. ![]() They had been invited to the town by their friend Richard Reiss, one of Welwyn Garden’s founding fathers. Among the town’s earliest pioneers were Dr Gladys Miall-Smith and her husband Dr Hubert Fry who arrived in Welwyn Garden City in March 1922, when the population was around 800.
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