Message from our Assistant to the Provincial Grand Principals
With the Festive Season and 2016 fast approaching I would like to extend my thanks to all three Groups on the Fylde for their support in the first part of…
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Provincial Charity Stewards Dinner and Cabaret
29 October 2016Preston Masonic Hall, Saul Street, Preston, PR1 2QUReception 7.00 pm Dinner 7.30 pm All members and their partners are welcome. The…
Burns night fun at Cleveleys
Haggis neeps and tatties Normoss Round Table No 8741 recently held a Burns supper at Cleveleys Masonic Hall which was attended by members of the lodge and…
Assistant Provincial Grand Master awarded OBE for work with Langley House Trust
Anthony Howlett-Bolton, Assistant Provincial Grand Master of the Berkshire Freemasons and former Chair of Langley House Trust, has been awarded an OBE for his leadership of Langley which transforms the lives of offenders
Charity Clay Pigeon Shoot
Mark Nixon will be running his Annual Charity Clay Pigeon Shoot under the auspices of Mark Master Masons 1084 Lodge Welchpool North Wales Province. The…
The Masonic Trout and Salmon Fishing Charity
The Branch fishing events this year proved very successful with three days for the children, the first at Gilcrux on Wednesday 11th May and the second and third days at Tarnhouse Tarn near Kirkby Lonsdale on the 17th and 18th May respectively.
FREEMASONRY IN THE EARLY 1600 AND 1700
There is such an abundance of evidence in proof of the continuity of Freemasonry during the period selected, that it is only necessary to study the special records of the old Lodges, happily still preserved, the Rolls of the “Old Charges”, and especially the extant minutes of the Masons’ Company of London, to be assured that the Freemasons of the present day are the lineal descendants of the operative builders, who in the 17th century, and earlier, admitted speculative or non-professional members.
Epping Forest Lodge Awarded West Essex Hospices Appeal Bronze Champion
Epping Forest Lodge are proud to have been awarded West Essex Hospices Appeal Bronze Champion for the generosity shown by the brethren with recent donations.
The butter on the asparagus
It was the hottest and clammiest day of the year when the masses gathered at Blackpool Masonic Hall for the installation convocation of Senatores Chapter of Installed First Principals No 8966. Despite the rather oppressive heat however, there was a general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.
MITHRAISM: FREEMASONRY AND THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES
THE THEORY that modern Freemasonry is in some sense a direct descendant from the ancient Mysteries has held a peculiar attraction for Masonic writers this long time, and the end is not yet, for the world is rife with men who argue about the matter up and down endless pages of print