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With Masonic Ceremonial
Aprons and bedbound children feature in this newsreel showing Lord Ampthill’s Masonic ceremony for the opening a new hospital in Hampshire.
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Overview
The Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples’ Hospital was opened in 1907 from a fund set up by the Lord Mayor of London for children suffering from TB. In 1929, it was rebuilt and this ceremony captures the start of that reconstruction. The stone-laying is conducted by Lord Ampthill in a full Masonic ceremony complete with stone-tapping and aprons, while children watch from hospital beds. Ampthill was a leading Mason and former Viceroy of India.
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