{"id":1085,"date":"2017-11-06T12:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?page_id=1085"},"modified":"2017-11-06T15:39:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:39:32","slug":"hanover-park-v-a-d-hospital","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?page_id=1085","title":{"rendered":"Hanover Park V.A.D. Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1092 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/map-Hanover-Park-1930s-1950s-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/map-Hanover-Park-1930s-1950s-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/map-Hanover-Park-1930s-1950s-768x340.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/map-Hanover-Park-1930s-1950s-1024x454.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/map-Hanover-Park-1930s-1950s.jpg 1555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/>In 1914, at the beginning of the war, Mr. Charles Higgins, of the drapers Jones &amp; Higgins, placed Hanover Lodge, the firm&#8217;s Male Hostel in Hanover Park, at the disposal of the War Office for use as a hospital. In 1915 it became the 35-bed Hanover Park V.A.D. Hospital, an auxiliary to the First London (T.F.) General Hospital in Cormont Road, Camberwell.<\/p>\n<p>The accommodation was increased to 50 beds in May 1917. \u00a0The Hospital was then staffed by 3 trained nurses and 90 part-time V.A.D. members.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1088\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088\" class=\"wp-image-1088 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WW1-hospital-on-ward-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WW1-hospital-on-ward-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WW1-hospital-on-ward-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WW1-hospital-on-ward-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WW1-hospital-on-ward.jpg 1256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WW1 hospital ward<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hanover Park Hospital closed on 30th April 1919.<\/p>\n<p>Today the site of Hanover Lodge is covered by Morrison&#8217;s supermarket car park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezitis.myzen.co.uk\/hanoverpark.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See: Lost Hospitals of London: Hanover Park V.A.D. Hospital<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1914, at the beginning of the war, Mr. Charles Higgins, of the drapers Jones &amp; Higgins, placed Hanover Lodge, the firm&#8217;s Male Hostel in Hanover Park, at the disposal of the War Office for use as a hospital. In 1915 it became the 35-bed Hanover Park V.A.D. Hospital, an auxiliary to the First London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1071,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085\/revisions\/1094"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}