Lodges, Chapters & Individuals
The United Grand Lodge of England currently has over a quarter of a million members meeting in over 8,000 Lodges.
Adrian Foster Talks With Richard Smith About The Growing Popularity Of Special-Interest LodgesIt’s no secret that attendances at Lodge meetings and the numbers of candidates coming forward for initiation into Freemasonry are falling in certain…
Light of Siam Lodge No. 9791
Wednesday, 01 December 2010
Howard Digby-Johns recalls the day the tsunami struck The overwhelming awfulness was that we knew nothing. You could have been 500 yards from people consumed by the water and see and hear nothing. Forget the…
Major Event For 2012 Olympics
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
In less than two years the Olympic flame will burn bright above London for the first time since 1948. Freemasonry was at the birth of the modern Olympic movement and masons were active in many…
A Ladies Night at the Lodge, Or a Weekend Away?Many lodges hold an annual Ladies’ Night where members’ wives, partners and friends are invited for a formal dinner. But some lodges are more ambitious, they…
Berkshire Companions Rally To A Bugle Call
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Bugle Major Cox of 4 Rifles gave Berkshire’s Vale of Loddon Chapter No. 8421, friends and families, an explanation of the historic development of the bugle within Light Infantry regiments at the Long Gallery, Englefield…
Epic Journeys In A ‘Tin Lizzie’ Are What Keep Larry Riches Going, As Julian Rees Found OutIn a 1903 ruby-red Cadillac I am bumping down a banked lawn in the grounds of Larry Riches’ Victorian…
David Harrison Looks At The Work Of This Pioneering ScientistIt has been said that the discovery of the smallpox vaccine in the late eighteenth century by Freemason, Edward Jenner has saved more lives than the…
Mystery Of The Clay Pipe
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Brendan Morland was working in his garden when he came across an old clay pipe with the square and compasses engraved on it. There is also a crescent moon surrounded by six stars and a…
It was a special family occasion for Monmouthshire when Provincial Grand Master, The Rev. Malcolm Lane, installed his son Matthew into the chair of his mother lodge, St Gabriel No. 8711. Also present was Matthew’s…
Helping Chlöe
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Brethren of Lodge of Union, No. 38 in Sussex, along with MCC (Madehurst Cricket Club!) and the Lions Club, raised funds at a cricket match with barbecue and raffles to provide a suitable wheelchair, unavailable…
More...
Charity Walk For Local Hospital
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
A charity walk of 100 miles in eight days as a ‘thank you’ to staff of Hereford Hospital has provided financial support to improve the lives of future cancer patients. Colin Tudor, of Delphis Lodge…
Wiltshire Lodge of Agriculture No. 9090 has again organised the local Voices for Hospices event in support of the Dorothy House Hospice near Bath. The Concert raised £2,500 to which Provincial Grand Master Francis Wakem added a…
Local masons have backed the Whitstable Women’s Institute project in aid of the Support Our Soldiers charity. Graveney Court and Graystone Lodges in Whitstable, St. Michael’s Lodge of Instruction in Sittingbourne, and Whitstable and Herne…
Two members of the Pudsey family of lodges have been helping troops in Afghanistan to stay fresh and clean! David Hilton of Thoresby Lodge No. 4920 and Peter Throp of Perseverance Lodge No. 3197, have…
