{"id":288,"date":"2020-08-15T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.redditchheritage.org.uk\/?p=288"},"modified":"2023-06-19T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:36:22","slug":"the-origins-of-the-alexandra-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of The Alexandra Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been asked if anyone knows the origins of the land on which the Alexandra Hospital was built in Redditch.<\/p>\n<p>The road leading to the hospital is Quinney&#8217;s Lane and the suggestion is that the land was bequeathed for a hospital by the Quinney family. The restaurant in the Hospital is also known as Quinney&#8217;s Restaurant so there appears to be a link to the name.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/help.redditchheritage.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Hospital-Site-02-300x154.jpg\" width=\"608\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The map shows no farm at the site, Shaekespeare Farm is where the Ley&#8217;s (Now Tudor Grange) was built. Tanhouse farm is further away on Green Lane. The Quinney family being associated with Oak Farm in Sambourn which is even further away.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a native of Redditch so do not know these family links but someone may know.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Coombes<\/p>\n<p>s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been asked if anyone knows the origins of the land on which the Alexandra Hospital was built in Redditch. The road leading to the hospital is Quinney&#8217;s Lane and the suggestion is that the land was bequeathed for a hospital by the Quinney family. The restaurant in the Hospital is also known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enquiry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}