Building record MHG56966 - Masonic Lodge & WWI Detention Hospital - Outram Street, Invergordon

Summary

A late C19 masonic lodge taken over by the Army in WWI for use as a detention hospital.

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Grid reference Centred NH 7081 6846 (11m by 15m)
Map sheet NH76NW
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS
Civil Parish ROSSKEEN

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Site of a WWI Naval Stores receiving room on Outram Street, Invergordon.

The site was investigated in 2015 as part of the ARCH project 'Invergordon in World War I'. The Masonic Lodge (Lodge Ness 888) received its charter in 1899 and was consecrated in 1901. Valuation rolls record that the Lodge was taken over in World War I by the Army for use as a Detention Hospital. <1>

Early in WWII airmen from the RAF flying boat squadrons were said to have slept on the floor of the Hall. <3>

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  • <1> Dataset: ARCH. 2015. Invergordon in World War I. Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH). Digital. Site 237.
  • <3> Text/Publication/Monograph: Park School. 1992. Invergordon: A Town at War. p.46.

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Record last edited

Jan 22 2016 11:56AM

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