ROYAL ALFRED CHAPTER No 780 CELEBRATES CENTENARY CONVOCATION AT EALING
E Comp Peter Jordan SLGCR reports. I first had the pleasure of visiting Royal Alfred Chapter No. 780 in 2003, experiencing a very warm ambience during the meeting and a very jovial Festive Board so I was delighted to receive an invitation from the chapter’s First Principal E Comp Wayne Hirst, PGStB to attend the […]
FOREWORD – W Bro Omaid Hiwaizi SLGR Metropolitan Communications Officer
Communication with Purpose. This edition of Arena was largely prepared before the social distancing measures were implemented by the UK government and the suspension of all masonic activities in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Our thoughts are with those directly affected by the virus and their families, and with all the key workers who are […]
EDITORIAL – W Bro Rod Glyn-Thomas LGR
At the last meeting I attended before this awful pandemic, I was having a chat with some of my mates after our festive board and a brother we don’t really know strolled over and joined us. During the entertaining discussion that followed, it became clear that he and I had grown up in the same […]
MetGInsp E Comp JOHN BURNAPP PRESENTS 50 YEAR CERTIFICATE AT THE PRINCIPALS OF GOLIATH CHAPTER No 55
E Comp Peter Jordan SLGCR reports Just before Christmas, Metropolitan Grand Inspector E Comp John Burnapp PAGSoj presented two Fifty-Year Long Service Certificates to Companions at two different chapters and two separate centres for London Freemasonry, just seven days apart. On the 12th December 2019, at the Harrow District Centre, Comp John and his escorting […]
MILL HILL LODGE NO 3574 CELEBRATE FIFTY YEARS OF SERVICE
W Bro Tony Shepherd SLGR witnesses this Bro Neil Dunnet SLGR was initiated into Mill Hill Lodge No 3574 on 16 December 1969. He was Worshipful Master in 1978 and was honoured with Senior London Grand Rank in 2004. On Tuesday 17th December 2019 in Temple 15 at Freemasons Hall in the presence of forty […]
THE CONNAUGHT CLUB – UPDATE
W Bro Anthony Muirhead – the Chairman of the Connaught Club – gives an update with what’s going on with the young masons in London. As spring approaches (!) the Connaught Club has much to look forward to, with the new Club year beginning on the 1st of March. In the middle of the month, […]
SISTER CHAPTERS REUNITED BY FORTUITOUS MEETING ACROSS THE HALLWAY
E Comp Peter Jordan reports On Thursday 14th February 2019 only five members of Dalston Chapter No 3008 met at their Installation meeting. The Chapter’ s future appeared bleak with illness and a lack of members, including the loss of four members the year before. It was becoming evident that the Chapter, with great sadness, […]
THE OLD REPTONIAN LODGE ESTABLISHES LINKS WITH FREEMASONS FROM SWEDEN
Back in October 2019, The Old Reptonian Lodge, No 3725 was approached by Grand Lodge to host nineteen visiting brethren from Sweden keen to visit Freemasons’ Hall in London and attend a Lodge meeting. The Swedish Brethren were members of St Johanneslogen Arcturus Lodge, a Lodge in Östersund, Sweden, founded in 1901. Sadly, their visit […]
WELLINGTON LIVERY MASTERS LODGE No 6991
W Bro Michael D J Wilkey SLGR, Secretary, explains how “First there was the idea. The idea became a word and the word became a Masonic Lodge” In 2014 the current Master, W Bro Issa Tahhan, recognised that some of the other Livery Masters were Freemasons which gave him the idea of a special and […]
June 2020 Organ Concert postponed until next year due to COVID-19
Since 2017 Freemasons’ Hall has been proud to host world class organists at our biannual Organ Concerts. With the coronavirus pandemic that is currently affecting us all, regrettably we have been forced to cancel the scheduled Organ Concert on Wednesday, 10 June 2020. D’Arcy Trinkwon will instead be performing on Wednesday, 9 June 2021. Nigel […]
The Kent Club Update
An update from the Chairman, W Bro Dudley Price PAGDC. In the depths of winter on a day in early February when it ceased momentarily to rain, the more adventurous of the Kent Club journeyed to Bristol, where they were entertained on a Saturday afternoon and evening by Canynges Lodge No 1388, treated by the […]
THE MEN AT THE TOP – W Bro John Parry PSGD Metropolitan Grand Inspector
Interview by W Bro Gur Samuel LGR “Opportunities pass you every moment of every day, and you decide to seize on them or not.” That mantra is one that guided W Bro John Parry, not only to Freemasonry, but through an incredibly varied career that has taken him all over the world, from ice floes […]