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title: What an AI agent reads on The Whitgift Almshouses Croydon · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/friendsofoldpalace.org/agent-view?format=md
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# What an AI agent reads on The Whitgift Almshouses Croydon

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [friendsofoldpalace.org](http://www.friendsofoldpalace.org/almshouses.htm), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

2,076

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: the Whitgift Almshouses. First 1,800 of 2,076 characters:

```
the Whitgift Almshouses The Whitgift Almshouses Croydon"An oasis of peace and tranquility" - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 For several hundred years The Archbishops of Canterbury had a residence at Old Palace in Croydon, and there they would spend the summer months resting from their travels between Canterbury and Lambeth. Seeing the suffering and poverty caused by war and bad harvests, Archbishop John Whitgift (c.1530 - 1604) sought and received permission from Queen Elizabeth 1 to build a hospital and school in Croydon and, on March 22nd 1596, he laid the foundation stone for the Hospital Of The Holy Trinity, now known as the Almshouses. On the 22nd of March each year, the laying of the foundation stone is celebrated as Founder's Day. Today, this beautiful old building sits nestled, in the centre of Croydon, as if oblivious to the nearby, relentless construction of high rise office buildings, multiplex cinemas, trendy restaurants and shopping centres which Croydon prides itself on, and ironically, the Whitgift Shopping complex and business precinct is built upon the site of the old Whitgift Middle School. Indeed, in 1923, after many years of threats of demolition on account of Croydon Corporation's road widening schemes the Whitgift Hospital was saved by the intervention of the House Of Lords. Many quaint customs from the olden days are still retained at the Almshouses and the loveliest of all takes place every Friday morning at 10am when the resident who has lived in the Almshouses the longest rings the Chapel bell for the stipend ceremony. Each of the residents receive a small amount of money from the Clerk to the Foundation, ladies 70p and men 65p, as a token representation of John Whitgift's original stipend. An extra stipend is paid quarterly when the men receiv
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 0 |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

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