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Lodge Prince of Wales, Renfrew No.426 was the venue for a unique ceremony on Saturday 11th June, to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the opening of The Marcus Humphrey House.
THE MASONIC RELIEF ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, appears to have made contact with the Grand Lodge of Scotland, in the midst of the 1st World War
There was read to Grand Committee a letter from Right Worshipful Brother W. H. Melish of Cincinnati, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of an Association which has been organised in the United States of America, for the purpose of raising a Relief Fund to aid the needs of Freemasons and their families who are sufferers through the European War
Why do Scottish Freemasons celebrate the 4th of July? Look at any Scottish calendar, diary or any other document that lists important dates (holidays, ‘international’ days, dates of birth and deaths of ‘important’ people etc.) and none has any apparent relevance to Scottish Freemasonry.
Lodge St Andrew 228, located in Insch, received a letter from Bhenn and Emma from the Insch out of school club. They were seeking assistance in relation to an ongoing Gardening Project in a small field at the rear of Insch Community Hall. There are approximately forty children from primary 1-7 involved.
RWM Bro. Douglas Abercrombie, receiving a ‘local hero’ award for his fund raising efforts on behalf of Kilmaron School in Cupar
This morning at 7.30 am the ‘One O’clock Gun’ at Edinburgh fired a single shot to mark to the minute one hundred years ago that the Battle of the Somme began and to begin a two minute silence in memory of those who fell.
The Grand Lodge of Scotland will perform a rededication ceremony in the Masonic Hall next Saturday (May 18) afternoon, marching in their full regalia from the hall to the Red Lion Hotel afterwards for dinner.
Within the argument being made on behalf of advocating an apology from Glasgow for its historical relationship with Caribbean chattel slavery (misplaced in our opinion) there is the sub-clause about Robert Burns, pictured, and his Jamaican ambitions
A secret scroll which has been hanging in a Masonic Lodge in the Orkney Islands for almost three centuries is thought to be one of the most significant recent finds in Britain.
THE Scottish birthplace of one of the best-known military leaders of the American Revolution has come on the market for £1.65m. John Paul Jones (1747 – 1792) is best known as “the Father of the American Navy” – thanks to his incredible prowess as a military commander at sea. Jones was born to the head gardener of the estate.