3-028-300 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Princess Louisa opening the bazaar for the North-Eastern Hospital for Children, 1870. 'The North-Eastern Hospital for Children, now situated at 125, Hackney-road, near Shoreditch Church [in London], has afforded relief to 15,000 out-patients since its commencement, two or three years ago; but it has room for only twelve in-patients, and the committee therefore make a special appeal to public liberality for a fund to provide a new building. A fancy bazaar to obtain money for this purpose was held...at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street. It was opened...by her Royal Highness Princess Louisa. The great hall of the hotel was elegantly decorated; stalls filled with the usual miscellaneous collection of fancy toys and needlework were placed on each side of the room, the centre of which was left open for the visitors... After going round the "fancy fair," inspecting the stalls and making purchases, her Royal Highness took her station on a dais erected at the upper end of the hall, Lady Churchill standing on the right and Mrs. Allsop on the left hand. Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., read an address; after which Miss J. M. Tylor, Miss Dixon, Miss Catherine Paget, and Miss Helena Louisa Tylor, all dressed in white, presented a bouquet'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.