Royal Masonic Hospital, Ravenscourt Park

Silent colour footage of the Royal Masonic Hospital in Ravenscourt Park.

There’s no sound for this film, which shows the inner workings of the Royal Masonic Hospital, founded in 1911 and opened on these premises in 1933. The film features many aspect of the hospital, including the kitchen, wards, theatre, physiotherapy, children’s ward, gardens and fish pond, nurse school and lounge, canteen and chapel. Also shows what appears to be a Masonic ceremony at the foundation stone, laid in May 1932, and a Masonic convalescent home outside London.