SAVED FROM BUILDERS
FOUNDLING HOSPITAL SITE VJSCOUNT ROTHERMERE’S GENEROSITY. Picss Association —T’>y Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. April 11. Tn order to save the Eoundling Hospi till Mtc, consisting ol : nine acres, oil Grab’s Inn road, Irom the builders, Viscount Rothermere lias piirelia-sed it for £525,00U, paying £50,000 down in order to secure an option until Juno, 1931. Viscount Rothermere also otters £50,000 towards the purchase, and will make tho sum £IOO,OOO if the entire site is converted into a children’s park, being used for one month each year as a camping ground lor British Boy Scouts.
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Evening Star, Issue 20151, 16 April 1929, Page 4
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94SAVED FROM BUILDERS Evening Star, Issue 20151, 16 April 1929, Page 4
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