Grand Charity 2016 News
Grand Charity donates £666,500 The Freemasons’ Grand Charity has donated grants totalling £666,500 to 17 charities. MAJOR GRANTS 11…
Clay Shooting Association Report
February the 15th was the second MMCSA event and was held at at Keeper Lodge just outside Chepstow. It was cold morning and the dark grey clouds were…
Glasgow Cryptic visit to Prague
Companions Further to Jim’s previous email and the need for speed. I have looked at various options and at present the most economical and…
Shropshire Blue Magazine
We’re in the process of launching our new news platform – Shropshire Blue Magazine! You can view the latest news from the province here:…
Christmas Charity Quiz – The Answers!
A very big thank you to everyone who took part in the 2015 Christmas Charity Quiz – you helped raise many hundreds of pounds for 2019 Festival…
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova Freemason Italian adventurer and writer
In 1783, Casanova met Benjamin Franklin in Paris. Franklin was not the only prominent man and mason that he would meet in his second round of travels. He would also meet Voltaire who he would eventually get into a philosophical battle with. He would also meet Mozart. At the time Casanova met Mozart, Mozart was composing his opera Don Giovanni, which was essentially like holding up a mirror to Casanova’s life. It is unknown how Casanova reacted to seeing what was essentially his life being shown as immoral, it is claimed that Casanova wrote lines for Don Giovanni but they were not used.
THE MASON’S MALLET
The Freemason is taught in the course of the First Degree that the Mallet is an important instrument of labour without which no work of manual skill can…
Edinburgh Register House MS 1696 masonic
Edinburgh Register House MS 1696.txt Knoop, D; Jones, G P; Hamer, D;The Early Masonic Catechisms,Manchester University Press (1963)Second Edition, pp…
Jasper Tudors election night well supported
At the Jasper Tudor Lodge at Newport Masonic Hall last Saturday evening it was the election of the new Worshipful Master for 2016/17. Bro. Ben Waters…
Boost for local Cancer Charity set up by two Freemasons
Most Shropshire folk will undoubtedly be familiar with the Lingen Davies Cancer Fund (renamed from the Lingen Davies Cancer Relief Fund in 2013). Bernard…