Promoting the Fraternity across the World
The Southern point of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, was opened up by the Dutch East India Company as a trading station to supply ships on the route to the East Indies with fresh produce. Freemasonry in the Netherlands, founded in 1756, was expanding rapidly and, with many masters of ships being Freemasons, it was natural for a Lodge to be founded at this halfway station under the banner of the Grand East of the Netherlands (G.E.N.).
Milton Keynes school receives new digital piano
Members of Vale Lodge No 5256 held a very successful evening at the Longlands Hotel, Tewitfield, near Carnforth to celebrate and honour ‘The Ladies’. The WM of the lodge Bill Byrne and the principal guest, his wife Ela, were delighted to welcome fellow Masons, family and friends to their special evening, which was orchestrated with precision and humour by the lodge director of ceremonies Norman Mitchell.
On 2nd June, 2016, prior to the final meeting of the Trevor Kelway Lodge No. 8466 before its summer break, the Worshipful Master, W.Bro. Robert Stevens, presented a cheque to Mr Clive Scourfield, the Wales Air Ambulance Charity Community Coordinator for Carmarthenshire. Also included in the picture are members of the Trevor Kelway Lodge.
During the open day at the Masonic Rooms in Malvern on the 25th June, Malvern Priory Mark Lodge No 1351 presented the Worcester Army Cadet Force Charitable Trust with a cheque for £650 in support of the excellent youth development work undertaken within the area.
Four Rivers Cultural Center recently received a $750 donation for its capital campaign from the Ontario’s Acacia Masonic Lodge No. 118. In this photo, Matt Stringer, executive director of the Cultural Center, bottom center, stands among members of the Acacia Lodge during the check presentation.
When Shropshire mason Andy Gough married Maria at St Peter’s Church, Rushbury, near Church Stretton, wedding presents were notably absent – instead they had asked guests to make a charitable donation, raising £1,000.
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.
When the Grand Orient of France chartered La Loge Française of Richmond, Virginia, in 1849, it became the first French speaking Lodge in the United States. Later that year on November 1, members of the Grand Lodge of Virginia and St. Johns Lodge #36 met with the brothers of La Loge Française in the first recognition of a “regular” or English Lodge and a “clandestine” or French Rite Lodge to take place in America.
A cheque was presented on Wednesday 13th July 2016 by WBro John Waddington of Royal Edward Lodge No 1088, from the Area 4 community grant scheme, to match funds raised by the lodge. John informed us that several lodges from Dukinfield had contributed, which financially assisted the scouts to travel to Blackpool, enabling them to join their 100th year celebrations.