Promoting the Fraternity across the World
The Masonic Provinces of Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire have been invited to send Standard Bearers for the last 3 years. Last year we in Derbyshire only paraded one standard with a small contingent headed by The Provincial Grand Master RWBro Steven Varley.
The Middlesex Home Service Lodge No.5836 celebrated its 75th Anniversary on the 10th June 2016 at the Twickenham District Masonic Centre at Cole Court.
The meeting was attend by W.Bro. Brian Fisher, PSGD, AProvGM and his Provincial Team for the Installation of the new Worshipful Master Bro. David Glenham.
This year the Herefordshire Masonic Charity Association invited representatives of those local charities to a coffee morning at the Masonic Hall in Kyrle Street, Hereford. They were welcomed by the Provincial Grand Master, Rev David Bowen, and were given a brief talk on the history of Freemasonry and the part that charity plays, by the Provincial Charity Steward, Nick Swan
Founded in 1880, the Leopold Lodge is number 87 and as one of the oldest in the Clarence Valley, its 136 year history is something that Very Worshipful Brother Rod Smith doesn’t want to see forgotten.
On 2nd July 2016 Alder Tree Lodge No 9289 held a Charity Black Tie Dinner on behalf of The North Hampshire Deaf Children’s Society at Farnborough Masonic Centre. Following a successful raffle raising £475.00 the Master W. Bro Brian Lawrence was able to present the Charity with a cheque for £600
Provinces may enter as many Masonic shooters as they wish and every entrant’s score will be registered.
The Team Winners in the Competition will be the 3 highest scores posted for a given Province.
Despite atrocious weather conditions in the morning which almost rendered the course unplayable, the ground-staff worked wonders to enable our 32 players to get out on the course. Unfortunately, during the event the weather once again intervened to ensure that everyone had, if not an enjoyable day, definitely one which they will long remember with a certain number of balls being ‘retired’
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
To celebrate the Tercentenary of Grand Lodge and promote Freemasonry throughout the South West, a banner will be paraded across the Province’s of Wiltshire, Jersey, Guernsey & Alderney, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorset and Hampshire & Isle of Wight.
Bro. Brent Thompson lost his life in the line of duty during the incident in Dallas. Officer Thompson was a Master Mason and member of Corsicana Lodge No. 174 in Corsicana, Texas. His son, William, is a member of DeMolay