{"id":1268,"date":"2011-04-24T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T08:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:31:23","slug":"news-letter-24th-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent run of large attendances continued with the Society\u2019s April meeting, when The 32<sup>nd<\/sup> Master of the Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick gave us a brief history of the mainly 14<sup>th<\/sup> century building which, despite its name, is not and never was, a hospital as we know it.\u00a0 The building had its origins in medieval times as a shelter for old warriors and continues to serve this function today.\u00a0 In an enthralling presentation, our speaker, a retired Army officer, highlighted some aspects of the hospital\u2019s intriguing Elizabethan history and then took us on a virtual tour of the chapel, the Guild Hall, the Main Hall and the Master\u2019s House.\u00a0 To conclude, we were treated to photos and anecdotes of David Dimbleby\u2019s television documentary and the Dr Who episode filmed there.\u00a0 All this raised members\u2019 expectations for the Society\u2019s visit to Warwick in October, when we shall enjoy the tour with the Master for real!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent run of large attendances continued with the Society\u2019s April meeting, when The 32nd Master of the Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick gave us a brief history of the mainly 14th century building which, despite its name, is not and never was, a hospital as we know it.\u00a0 The building had its origins in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}