GIFT OF A PARK.
SOUTHWARK SLUM AREA. LORD ROTHERMERE THE DONOR. Ban. LONDON. Fob. 28. The Daily Mail states that Lord Rothermere has purchased for £155,000 the 14 acres comprising the former site of the famous Bethlehem mental hospital. This in to be converted into a permanent playground and park in the heart of the Southwark slums, as a memorial to Lord Rothermere's mother.
The hospital was removed to Paddington in 1924,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19265, 2 March 1926, Page 9
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