New admission to Bideford hospital

One of the latest ‘admissions’ to the Kingsley Hospital, Bideford, to receive care and attention is a mushroom.

It is believed to be a record size. Found by a member of the hospital staff in the corner of a nearby field, it weighs 1lb. ½ and is oblong in shape, measuring 11 inches by 8½ inches across the top. Its stalk is four inches long. Nurse P. Marshall is shown holding the mushroom in the picture. It provided the matron and staff with ‘delicious soup!’

Gazette article 31 August 1956