Cottage Hospital

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Introduction
Issued in 2003 as Wisteria Tea Rooms the model is based on the Vickers Hotel in Woodstock, north of Oxford. The town grew up as a coach stop around a Royal Hunting Lodge, now site of the magnificent Blenheim Palace. Home to successive Dukes of Marlborough since the early 1700s, it is open to the public.

The Vickers Hotel, a 1500s Cotswolds stone building with a double gable at 7 Market Place, next to the Town Hall. 

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Hazle Ceramics
Cottage Hospital
Limited Painting of 30
on Woodstock

Victoria Cottage Hospitals
Built for Queen Victoria’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees in 1887 and 1897, only a few remain including one in Sidmouth below left - visited by Marilyn in 1964. Today “Surgery in the Community” is a shift to the local care such hospitals once gave. Victoria’s father HRH The Duke of Kent, 4th son of King George III, died of pneumonia at Sidmouth in 1819. He stayed there with his wife and baby daughter “to beat the English winter“. Sadly there was no hospital then!

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 Queen Victoria stayed at Woolbrook Cottage in Sidmouth as the baby Princess Alexandrina in 1819. Built in the 1500s, it is now the Grade 1 listed Royal Glen Hotel. Her former “Nursery” room still has the creaking floorboards her royal Nanny complained of!

The top pane marks where a stray bullet from a youth hunting birds in the wooded glen missed Princess “Drina” in her side room at Woolbrook Cottage, Sidmouth. 
 Sidmouth Hospital

 Rambling foliage on the ceramic was inspired by climbing plants such as these in Woodstock.