{"id":1576,"date":"2011-01-05T15:58:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.onclick.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=1576"},"modified":"2011-01-06T21:34:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:34:28","slug":"the-hoppers-hospital","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1576","title":{"rendered":"The Hoppers&#8217; Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_958\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/hoppershospital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-958\" class=\"size-full wp-image-958\" title=\"hoppershospital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/hoppershospital.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/hoppershospital.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/hoppershospital-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A postcard showing the Hoppers&#39;s Hospital<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Hoppers Hospital, opposite the Railway Station, pictured here in  about 1930, was built to deal with minor injuries and ailments suffered  by the army of hop pickers who came to Marden in September each year to  assist with the hop harvest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/hopershospital2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-959\" title=\"hopershospital2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/hopershospital2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/hopershospital2.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/hopershospital2-178x300.gif 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The hospital was given to the village, in 1924, by Mrs Spender of  Chantry Place in whose grounds it stood.<\/p>\n<p>The following year an extension  was added at a cost of \u00a3500 of which about \u00a3120 was given by brewers  throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>See a newspaper cutting of Aug 1925 for more details.<\/p>\n<p>During the rest of the year the Hospital was used by the community for the care of sick orphans.<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly the Marden Medical Centre, built in 1983, now stands on the spot where the Hop Pickers&#8217; Hospital once stood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hoppers Hospital, opposite the Railway Station, pictured here in about 1930, was built to deal with minor injuries and ailments suffered by the army of hop pickers who came to Marden in September each year to assist with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1576\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":1435,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1576","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1576\/revisions\/1703"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}