Christmas Social Board
It is traditional for most Lodges in Rochdale to invite friends and family to their Social Boards following their last meeting of the year. This is a time not only to celebrate the lead up to Christmas but is also an important opportunity to encourage prospective...
Naphtali Lodge Visits Strarhardle Lodge
On the weekend of 19th November 2016 a number of masons from East Lancs visited Strarhardle Lodge 1507 in Blairgowrie, Scotland, to witness their installation and at the same time had the pleasure of meeting the Provincial Grand Master of Perthshire East, Ronny...
Waverley Lodge No 1322 Installation Meeting
Waverley Lodge No 1322 is now getting quite close to celebrating its 150th Anniversary, no mean feat in today’s changing world. On Thursday 27th October in 2016 they held their Installation Meeting at Ashton Masonic Hall in the presence of WBro John Pearson, the APGM...
Who is Father Christmas?
An East Lancs Provincial Officer moonlighting as Father Christmas was spotted over in Yorkshire recently ! !. Guess who ?. ( no prizes ! ) just for fun. The glasses may give a clue!
50 Years’ Service for WBro. Rodney Wild.
The meeting was to celebrate the 50th Anniversary for Rodney Wild who is the current Worshipful Master of Trinity Lodge No 5651 Audenshaw’s Lunchtime Lodge. He was initiated at Oldham on the 12th July 1966. He has four sons all in the Craft and they are Dean, Glyn,...
Sandon House Community Centre – New Floor
Several of the users of Sandon House gather with visitors from Cromwell with Papyrean Lodge to admire the new floor. Cromwell with Papyrean Lodge 5771 recently applied to the ELMC Grant Making Committee for a grant on behalf of Sandon House Community Centre in...
It’s beginning to look a lot like “Strictly”
At Ashton Masonic Club these young people from Latin Steps Dance were having a very lively fund raiser, the air was filled with music and the floor with excellent young dancers. It was then that the music stopped briefly to allow them to receive a much needed and very...
Presentation to WBro Roger Flitcroft PAGDC
On Saturday 3rd December 2016 at the Masonic Hall, Adelaide Street, Accrington, WBro David Lightbown, PAGDC, the Chairman of the East Ribble District, presented WBro Roger Flitcroft, PAGDC, with a crystal decanter for services to the Northern Area and in particular to...
University Scheme Lodges in Romania
Recently three members of Old Mancunians with Mount Sinai Lodge (one of the Province’s University Scheme Lodges) visited Invictus Lodge, No. 15, in the National Lodge of Romania, on the occasion of the Installation of Brother Rezwan Iqbal who was initiated into Old...
Support for Molly Howarth from Rochdale Freemasons
Molly Howarth was revising for her GSCE’s during May 2016 when she began to feel unwell suffering from headaches, dizziness and nausea. While she was sitting her exams, her health failed to improve and her parents Richard and Jane arranged a doctor’s appointment where...
Presentation to Clitheroe 41 Club
Presentation to Clitheroe 41 Club On Tuesday the 6th of December, Bro Roger Spensley of Limestone Rock Lodge No.369 in Clitheroe, in his capacity as the current Chairman of the Clitheroe 41 Club, invited members from the East Ribble District Team to come along and...
East Ribble District Carol Service
On Sunday December 4th, around 80 Brethren and their families assembled on a cold crisp afternoon at the Holy Trinity Free Church of England in Oswaldtwistle for the annual East Ribble District Carol Service with Nine Lessons. WBro Brian Derbyshire PProvDepGDC...