Promoting the Fraternity across the World
I am pleased to advise you that at Provincial Grand Chapter to be held on Saturday 12th November 2016, the M.E. Grand Superintendent E. Comp. Simon W. Rowe will be appointing the following Senior Provincial Grand Officers: –
To celebrate the culmination of fund raising for the RMTGB by our Brethren, the Province will be organising a Gala Festival at the Bournemouth International Centre on Saturday 22nd October 2016 (17:30 – 01:00). The event will be a chance to enjoy and celebrate the achievement, with dinner and dancing.
On 7th June, on a warm humid day when thankfully the threatened thunderstorms failed to materialise, golfers from across the Province descended on West Malling Golf Club to contest the 2016 inter-lodge/chapter championship for the William Blay Trophy.
An English Freemason, distinguished for his services to the Craft. Robert Thomas Crucefix, M.D., I·.D., was born in Holborn, England, in the year 1797, and received his education at Merchant Tailors’ School. After leaving school, he became the pupil of Doctor Chamberlayne, a general and celebrated practitioner of his day, at Clerkenwell ; he afterward became a student at Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital and was a pupil of the celebrated Abernethy.
Friday 3rd June saw 35 Companions in attendance at the Chapter Installation Convocation. The Provincial Team, led by the Most Excellent Grand Superintendent, E. Comp. Colin P. T. Brown, comprised the Second Provincial Grand Principal, E. Comp. John Phenix with E. Comp. Derek Own acting as the Third. Their escort was E. Comp. Jeff Whiteley, Prov.A.G.D.C.
Golden Ratio The golden section Although not naming it the Golden Ratio, around 300 BCE Euclid of Alexandria defined the proportion: “A straight line is…
Of the many mysteries and legends which envelop Rosslyn Chapel few can be so well known as that surrounding the ‘Apprentice’ Pillar. The legend concerns the murdered apprentice with its overt references to the initiation rituals of ancient guilds of stonemasons which stretch back to the murder of Hiram Abif
Bro Blandford was born in 1841 and joined St John’s Lodge when he was just 22; the lodge then being only in its fifth year. He died at the age of 66, but…
Long-standing freemason David Lallana has vowed to use The Football Lodge to support the game’s grassroots. ENGLAND star Adam Lallana’s dad has become the founding master of Britain’s newest footy-themed Masonic Lodge.
“Talking Heads” is presented as a short playlet of an encounter between two craft lodge members; one an experienced Past Master (and Royal Arch Companion) WBro Ian Clark, SLGR, and the other a Master Mason WBro Mike Baker, PAGDC, curious to know more. It covers the history of the Order, explanations of the regalia, links to the Craft, why the Royal Arch is the climax and completion of pure Ancient Freemasonry