Promoting the Fraternity across the World
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.
RWs Charles Snardgrass and Jim Salvoija at Ft. Buford, ND Historic Ft. Buford in North Dakota is located at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri…
Roger de Fery Lodge No. 5879 in Ferryhill was the destination on a glorious early summer evening on 7th June, for David Sanders Hay, the Assistant Provincial Grand Master, to present a 50-year certificate to Stanley Wren.
Last month I received a massive stack of information from an anonymous Mason in New Jersey, detailing an ongoing series of disquieting episodes in that…
On Wednesday 17th February WBro Herbert Garside Hulme, who is known to just about everyone as Bert, celebrated his personal 60th Anniversary in the Craft. The Deputy Provincial Grand Master, VWBro Derek N Thornhill PGSwdB, accompanied by the Assistant Provincial Grand Master for the Southern Area, WBro John Pearson PSGD and the District Chairman, WBro Peter Douthwaite PProvGSwdB, were present to mark this exceptional occasion.
On Saturday 25th June, 8 members of “The Widow’s Sons” Chapter, organised by the Motorcycling Lodge of West Kent No. 9899, will be visiting 12 Provinces in 24-hours.
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.
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.