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Friday, February 1, 2008

The arrangement of the Masonic rooms,

The arrangement of the Masonic rooms, now almost necessary in all buildings of this type, is noticeable, each of the two principal rooms being capable of being utilised for suppers, banquets, or balls, as need may arise, as well as for purely Masonic purposes, and all
being readily served from the kitchen lifts.

The top floor contains the kitchen and several bed- rooms, the kitchen accommodation being ample even for large banquets in the rooms below. The back of the site, as will be seen from the ground-floor plan, is given up to large public stables consisting of one loose box and seven stalls and a coach-house and harness- room, with a large yard in front of them ; while
provision is made for additions in the future should the need arise as it probably would do before long for a motor garage. Stables will be dealt with in greater detail in a later part of the volume, and therefore there is no necessity at this moment to say more about them.

Still greater departures from the country inn, out of which they are developments, are the great London combined drinking saloons and places of refreshment, such as the Angel at Islington, also designed by Messrs. Eedle & Meyers, of which four plans are given this the various bars and the service portion, as seen on the ground plan, are arranged centrally in much the same way as at Dulwich, though the site is more restricted and greater use is made of lifts ; while two staircases are shown, one for public use in a broad entrance, and the other entirely for service. The whole of the back of the site is occupied by a large buffet and saloon bar, to be utilised to a
great extent for the service of luncheons, and top lighted, out of which a staircase drops to the billiard- room in the basement, which is only lighted artificially. At the back of the serving bars are stands for bottles, with a small office behind them, while underneath is a beer cellar and heating apparatus, there being even a sub-basement for further cellars.

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