Orange Lodge banner
This banner was made by George Tutill and Company of London and retailed by WM Bridget and Sons of Belfast to the Daughters of William, a Ladies Loyal Orange Lodge in Musselburgh.
The displayed side of this banner shows the affiliation of the DAUGHTERS OF WILLIAM, a LADIES LOYAL ORANGE LODGE to their home town of MUSSELBURGH. The town’s arms are central on the banner, which is designed to be suspended from a horizontal pole, itself carried on two vertical supports.
For two centuries after their foundation in the late eighteenth century, lodges of the Orange Order in Scotland were open only to men. After 1909, new lodges were established especially for women; they had an emphasis on charitable and benevolent activities, but otherwise participated fully in the ethos of the order.
Museum id no. 2000.447
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