There have always been festivities attached to lodge meetings, some lodges actually have their meal before the lodge meeting rather than after, and some lodges style themselves as Dining Lodges; lodges that specialise in a more distinguished dining experience. Feasting … Continue reading →
It has been said that the discovery of the smallpox vaccine in the late eighteenth century by Freemason, Edward Jenner has saved more lives than the work of any other man: Jenner has been fairly described as the ‘father of … Continue reading →
Another personal list – seven lodges that I would certainly like to visit. In my case of course, they are (apart from one or two) quite historic lodges, lodges that have been alive for many years and have not only witnessed the passage of … Continue reading →
A personal list – what historical Freemasons would you like to sit in a lodge with? Of all the historical Masons from the very beginnings of the society, there are some that you would just love to sit in a lodge … Continue reading →
The ethos of Freemasonry has never been so best exemplified than when a member of the society can make good from bad, and Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles did just that; from the lust of Empire building that was franticly taking … Continue reading →
Another personal list of mine. There have indeed been many Freemasons that have actually changed the world in which we live in; politicians and generals who have fought tyranny, scientists who have developed cures for diseases or invented new technologies, … Continue reading →
During nearly three hundred years since the first Grand Lodge was organised in London, England in 1717, there have been many Freemasons that have changed the Craft in a progressive and positive way. The following list is compiled of Masons that I … Continue reading →
‘Once a priest, always a priest; once a mason, always a mason; but once a journalist, always and forever a journalist.’ Freemason Rudyard Kipling, A Matter of Fact, Many Inventions, 1893 There is a Masonic lodge which still meets in London … Continue reading →
During the eighteenth century in England, there were three Grand Lodges in operation; the ‘Moderns’, the ‘Antients’, founded in 1751, and the Grand Lodge of All England held at York, otherwise known as the York Grand Lodge, which declared itself … Continue reading →
Freemasonry undoubtedly continued to assist in the networking that was crucial to the Trans-Atlantic trade as the nineteenth century progressed, especially between Liverpool and the ports of America. Crucial to the cotton industry of the north-west of England was the … Continue reading →
