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PROSPECT LODGE PYRAMID
PROSPECT LODGE PYRAMID
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 33983
NEWSPAPER CUTTING 1950'S SHOWING A PYRAMID STRUCTURE THAT WAS IN THE FRONT GARDEN OF PROSPECT LODGE STANDISH. SOMEONE SAID THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN AN ICE HOUSE? I HAVE SPOKEN TO THE PERSON WHO IS RENOVATING THE PROPERTY AND HE SAID THAT THERE ARE STILL REMAINS OF THE STRUCTURE. ALTHOUGH COVERED WITH VEGETATION. I'M HOPING TO GO UP THERE NEXT WEEK AND SEE IF I CAN TAKE SOME MEASUREMENTS OF THE BASE AREA.
IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFORMATION PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
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Comment by: Poet on 11th September 2022 at 10:24

Perhaps a long shot here Ron . There was once a row of terrace houses here occupied by miners from Prospect pit . They were owned by the Oddfellows .
The field behind the pyramid was used to bury human waste from the middens . There was an outbreak of Typhoid fever in 1922 .
It was the Oddfellows Association that installed the first water closets in the village .
Maybe the pyramid has some masonic significance .

Comment by: RON HUNT on 13th September 2022 at 15:57

poet, the Pyramid is shown on a 1849 map of the area. So I don't think it was built by the ODDFELLOWS organisation. But as you say it could have some Masonic significance??

Comment by: Tony L on 18th September 2022 at 11:53

It could also be an example of Egyptomania.
In England in the first couple of decades of the 19th century, there was a craze for anything related to Ancient Egypt.
This influenced furniture styles, and also led to the construction of follies in the shape of pyramids and temples.

Comment by: Ron Hunt on 19th September 2022 at 21:58

Tony, The mystery continues..

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