Grand Secretary’s column – Spring 2015
From the Grand Secretary We are delighted at the response to the first Membership Focus Group survey with 5,265 of you taking part. Please do read…
Museum
Library and Museum archives shed light on history of Albert Coveney Lodge No. 3519
More than a memory The written records generated by masonic lodges and chapters can give revealing insights into the masonic people, places and…
East Lancashire Centurion Lodge No. 2322 honours WWI centenary
Victoria Cross heroes East Lancashire PGM Sir David Trippier took the chair of his own lodge, East Lancashire Centurion Lodge, No. 2322, when he headed a…
The First Freemasons Hall
The first Freemasons’ Hall, designed by Thomas Sandby, had no street frontage but was built in the garden behind 61 Great Queen Street, a house dating…
Augustus Manning: one of the founders of Tilbury Lodge No. 2006
Head above water Instrumental in the construction of Tilbury Docks, Augustus Manning met Kaiser Wilhelm II eight years before the start of World War I,…
Letchworth’s shop manager Kevin Duffy explains how the business has grown
Attention to retail With Freemasons from across the world flocking through its high-arched doors, Letchworth’s is proving to be a popular…
John Hamill on the value of masonic artefacts
What’s heritage worth? While historic masonic items may not have huge monetary value, Director of Special Projects John Hamill explains why they are…
Freemasonry in the occupied Channel Islands during World War II
On British soil With Freemasonry banned in Germany, Jersey’s Past Provincial Grand Master David Rosser explains what the Nazi occupation of the…
Conservation work funded by the Association of Independent Museums
Message from madras Among the more unusual items in the archives of Grand Lodge is a fragile letter written in Persian, attached to an illuminated…
‘Our Yesterdays’ – Graham Redman and John Hamill
Freemasons Hall Great Queen Street London Quarterly Communication, 11 December 2013 A Speech By VW Bro Graham Redman, Deputy Grand Secretary, And VW Bro…