New Lodge Banner

John James, Secretary of Proscenium Lodge, No. 9059, created the lodge banner featuring the lodge logo of a theatre stage and proscenium arch. It is composed of half a million mini cross-stitches using embroidery yarn in forty different colours.
     Created on a canvas backing the silky finish of the 2 ft by 4 ft banner features the Lodge logo of a theatre stage and its proscenium arch. The self-taught embroidery artist, a retired schoolmaster, disciplined himself to work on the banner every day for the best part of two years. The work usually resulted in 600 stitches daily, which produced only a small piece of finished material measuring just 2 square inches.

Lancs Masons Support Scouts

Five Explorer Scouts from Wigan are attending the 21st. World Scout Jamboree at Hylands Park, Chelmsford in July and August. As part of their fundraising to raise the Jamboree fees of approximately £1,000 each, the five participants approached Arrowhead Lodge of Freedom, No. 8500, a Lodge primarily with connections with Scouting and other Uniformed Youth Organisations. The Lodge agreed to make a donation of £2000. This donation is part of Arrowhead Lodge of Freedom’s contribution to the Centenary of the Scout Movement. They are also making a donation of £1000 to the Scout Holiday Homes Trust, who provide holiday facilities to deprived families who do not necessarily have a Scouting background.

Local Artist Captures Masonic Work

The work of a Sheffield cancer charity has been captured in art form by the much celebrated Sheffield artist Joe Scarborough, who was commissioned to create a portrait entitled ‘Friends of The Cavendish Centre’, by the charity’s board member John Barbour, who is fund raiser for Freemasonry In The Community.
     It comprises a montage of images of fundraisers supporting the charity by running the London Marathon and taking part in the Chatsworth Walk, someone undergoing care at the centre and a garden party at Tapton Masonic Centre, which has been a great supporter of the charity.

Visit to Prince Hall

Brethren of Bryn Lodge, No. 6553 in Lancashire, have a tradition of visiting in various countries. They recently visited the Prince Hall Blazing Star Lodge, meeting in Amersfoort, in Holland under the jurisdiction of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. The ceremonial and the business of the Lodge lasted about 4 hours. ‘Here was a group of Brethren, who really enjoyed their Freemasonry, at the same time taking it very seriously,’ said Barry Dickinson of Bryn Lodge.

Canonbury Masonic Research Centre

All meetings held at The Canonbury Academy, 6 Canonbury Place, London N1 2NQ
Wednesdays: 7.00 – 9.00pm – Entry Fee £7
17 October: Geraldine Beskin; Aleister Crowley – the Man Behind the Myth
21 November: Tobias Churton; Freemasonry – the Reality
5 December: Roger Woolger; Mystical Body: Cosmic Christ

Ninth International Conference 3-4 November
Visions of Utopia: Masonic, Religious and Esoteric
For details contact Carole McGilvery 020 7226 6256
mcgilvery@canonbury.ac.uk
www.canonbury.ac.uk

Centre for Research into Freemasonry

SEMINARS 2007
All seminars are held in the Douglas Knoop Centre, 34 Gell Street, Sheffield S3 7QY at 1pm. Admission free; all welcome.
Following Professor Andrew Prescott’s move to the University of Lampeter, a new Director of the Centre for Research into Freemasonry at the University of Sheffield is to be appointed. The new appointee will take up his post in the autumn, and at that time, the new programme of seminars will be published.
Enquiries should be made to: Julie Banham,University of Sheffield, Douglas Knoop Centre, Centre for Research into Freemasonry, 34 Gell St, Sheffield S3 7QY Tel: 0114 222 9890 Fax: 0114 222 9894
j.p.banham@sheffield.ac.uk
www.freemasonry.dept.shef.ac.uk

The Cornerstone Society

The 2007 Autumn Northern Conference will be held on Saturday 10 November 2007 at Hemsley House, Salford, Greater Manchester. A wide range of speakers will deliver talks on a variety of topics of interest to all Master Masons and above. Details will be published shortly.

The Cornerstone Society was set up in 1999, under the patronage of The Marquess of Northampton, to assist Freemasons in the search for answers to such questions as: what prompted me to become a Freemason? is there more to Freemasonry than just tradition and fellowship? what is the process of initiation all about? and many more. The Society operates through two annual Conferences, one held in the South in summer and the other in the North in autumn. In addition, well-known and prominent speakers give talks to individual lodges and chapters during the year, and lecture tours are arranged.
     Any lodge wishing to host a Cornerstone speaker should contact the Secretary (details below).
     Trials are in progress at the moment of the lodge Orator scheme. A series of Orations has been devised which, in the light of the pilot schemes operating in some Provinces, are being revised and polished in preparation for the appointment of Provincial Orators. As the trials progress, details will be published on our website.
     The Secretary, The Cornerstone Society, 13 Victoria Road, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, FY8 1LE. email secretary@cornerstonesociety.com
www.cornerstonesociety.com

Quatuor Coronati

Thursday 13 September:
R.A. Gilbert; The Sixth Liberal Art: Astronomy and Freemasonry.
5pm at Freemasons’ Hall, London.
Thursday 8 November:
Installation meeting – address by the Master.
5pm at Freemasons’ Hall, London.