Milton Lodge No 1144 Captures the Travelling Gavel
Monday 21st November saw the Worshipful Master of Milton Lodge, WBro Leo Sterling, lead a group of Brethren, including Ian Walvin, Danny Langley, Dave Crawley, Roy Tindall and Pete Cole to Ardwick Lodge at Audenshaw Masonic Hall. There they were treated to an...
Lodge of Union No 268 Visit Provincial Grand Lodge
This year the Lodge of Union No 268 were particularly fortunate to see four of the Lodge brethren receive first appointments or promotions in the Provincial Grand Lodge of East Lancashire. Our ADC, who also happens to be District Chairman, WBro Peter Douthwaite, was...
Ashton & Mossley District AGM
The AGM of Ashton & Mossley District always takes place in the Autumn Term. (Do you notice, your DCO still thinks like a teacher even years after he stopped being one.) As you would expect, it is usually quite a staid and serious affair with all of the Area and...
50th Anniversary Celebration of WBro Anthony Fredrick Williams PProvSGD
Almost Fifty Brethren, including WBro John R. Farrington, PSGD, The Assistant Provincial Grand Master for the Northern Area of the Province of East Lancashire, accompanied by Grand Officers, Provincial Officers of the year and a District Delegation, signed the Tylers...
Burnley and Pendle District Freemasons donate much needed food supplies to the Salvation Army:
On Friday 9th December 2016, WBro Trevor Pickles from the Burnley and Pendle District Freemasons visited the Salvation Army Nelson Citadel to present a donation of food to the value of £250. A similar donation was made to the Burnley Citadel. Major Carol Ainsworth of...
Burnley and Pendle Freemasons donation to the Pyramid Self Help Group
WBro Keith Jackson presents the cheque to Mrs Yvonne Copa (activity coordinator) with members of the group and volunteers. WBro Keith Jackson attended a meeting of the Pyramid Self Help Group on the 9th of November 2016 to present a cheque for £525. The group meets at...
Burnley and Pendle Freemasons deliver more Teddies for Loving Care [TLC} bears to Burnley General Hospital
Burnley and Pendle District Charity Steward WBro Walter Coupe, accompanied by WBro David Hawkins and WBro Graham Smith visited the Critical Care Unit of Burnley General Hospital to deliver much needed Teddies for Loving Care [TLC] bears to the unit. Nurse...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...