3-017-097 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New building for the Masonic Institution for Boys, opened on Saturday last, [Tottenham, London], 1865. A '...spacious school-house...for the education of the sons of decayed or deceased Freemasons...[The building is] from the designs of Brother Stephen Barton Wilson...[and is] capable of accommodating from 150 to 200 boys and the necessary staff of officers...the building being now completed, the brethren met in special grand lodge, and a procession, headed by the stewards carrying their wands of office, having been formed under the direction of the G.D.C., the brethren walked in regular order from the place where they had assembled to the new building. The grand master, attended by his grand wardens, chaplains, registrar, &c., entered the edifice, and having invoked upon the undertaking the continual blessing of the G.A.O.T.U. [Great Architect of the Universe], declared is opened for the purposes of the charity, the new organ, erected by Messrs. Gray and Davison, pealing forth solemn music'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.