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moli
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National Masonic Children’s Home
« on: Wednesday 25 February 09 18:02 UTC (UK) »
Hi,

Can anyone provide information about the National Masonic Children’s Home that functioned in Newcastle upon Tyne during the twentieth century? Where was the home located?  Where might I find its archives?

I have tried contacting the Masonic organisation in Newcastle with no success.

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jo
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Re: National Masonic Children’s Home
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 25 February 09 19:19 UTC (UK) »
Hello Jo,not sure about a masonic children's home,but there 's a masonic boarding school for girls at Rickmansworth in Hert's ( it still takes mason's children.there was a boy's school  at Bushey but that closed some years ago.Try  googling the Masonic Grand Lodge in London and see what you can find.
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Re: National Masonic Children’s Home
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 26 February 09 17:13 UTC (UK) »
Barbara, thanks for the input.

I’m working with second-hand verbal information that the person I am researching was placed in a Masonic orphanage /school in Gosforth after WW1. I’ve contacted TWAS in the hope that it might know of orphanages or schools in and around the Gosforth area that might have existed after World War One.

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Re: National Masonic Children’s Home
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 23 June 09 13:28 UTC (UK) »
Just as a follow up to my query ...

The Provincial Grand Secretary of the Newcastle Masons confirmed that the Masons sponsored/ supported local orphanages, among them the Northern Counties Orphanage in Jesmond. (Not Gosforth, as I had thought.)

 Tyne and Tweed; The Journal of the Association of Northumberland Local History Societies (http://www.anlhs.org.uk/index.htm) issue number 47, 1992/93, pages 72-75 contains an article by H. Harrison Beavers “Between the Wars: An Insurance Salesman on Tyneside”  which describes his  life at the Northern Counties Orphanage in the 1920s while corroborating that the orphanage had Masonic support.

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