Remembrance Week and the Petwood

During Remembrance week, we’ll be posting about people connected to the Petwood and their wartime stories. Today we are featuring a short story about Lady Grace Weigall, the original owner of the Petwood. 
During WWI Lady Weigall and her husband Sir Archibald (pictured above), himself a serving soldier in the Northamptonshire Regiment who fought in the Boer War, offered Petwood up as a military hospital. The house was transformed to have several wards and even an operating theatre. The hospital opened with 40 beds in a ward which was formally the ballroom.

Keep an eye on Facebook and Instagram this week to see more people connected to the hotel and what they did during the war.

Picture (© Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum) staff and patients in the grounds of the hotel.