The Royal National Hospital Pig

There was a long history of piggeries in the grounds of the Royal National Hospital in Ventnor, with the animals being fed on the abundance of hospital food waste. Along with the considerable supplies of vegetables and fruit produced in the grounds, it proved vital in the later years of the Great War when food supplies became a problem on the Island and continued as a practice right up until the Hospital closed in 1964.

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