Freemasonry Today reports that voting to determine which health and care charities will receive a share of the MSF’s £1M silver jubilee research fund is now closed.
Continue Reading →We have updated the biography of WW1 hero, Bro Lieutenant John Powe Roberts, 9th Battalion Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force, who was killed on the 25th April 1915, 33 years of age.
Continue Reading →The United Grand Lodge of England has just informed us that RW Bro Iain Ross Bryce TD, DL, Past Deputy Grand Master and Past Second Grand Principal, died peacefully in hospital on 30th June, aged 79.
Continue Reading →One of our members recently came across a copy of the newspaper article on the Lodge Temperance visit to Northern Ireland among his papers. Read on to see the article.
Continue Reading →To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Masonic Samaritan Fund (MSF), the Charity is awarding £1M in grants to medical research projects. The MSF has invited every Freemason to nominate one research proposal from an agreed shortlist of five projects based in, or near our Province.
Continue Reading →Thanks to the Brethren and visitors who came to our meeting on Tuesday 16th. A great night and festive board. Here are just a few of the highlights….
Continue Reading →Inaugural Organ Concert – 19.00, Wednesday 30th September 2015
Grand Temple, Freemasons’ Hall, London
Officers and Brethren of Lodge Temperance 2557 are reminded there will be a coach meeting on Thursday June 11th 2015 and the regular meeting on June 16th 2015 both at the Masonic Hall, Corbridge Road, Byker, 7.00 sharp.
Continue Reading →Bro Joseph Ellison, Royal is another of our forgotten war heroes. He was a Freemason, member of Lodge Temperance 2557, a merchant Seaman and an Engineer Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy. You can read his biography here.
Continue Reading →We have just added another short biography. W. Bro. Andrew Christopher Messer was a Freemason and founding member of Lodge Temperance 2557. You can read his story here.
Continue Reading →On Monday, The Freemasons’ Grand Charity donated £50,000 to the Red Cross following the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal last weekend.
Continue Reading →Back in 1994, Salem Lodge No 1443 wrote to Lodge Temperance enclosing some Masonic effects of Bro James Cuthbert, images of which have been added to the website. Bro James was Master of the Lodge in 1911.
Continue Reading →Two of our members, Wbros Peter and Terry, recently made the short journey to Low Fell, Gateshead to collect the Masonic regalia of our late Bro. Russell Spooner PProvGStw.
Continue Reading →Thanks to the Brethren and visitors who attended the regular meeting on April 21st and made it such a success. Here are just a few of the highlights.
Continue Reading →A great new development on the Lodge Temperance 2557 website. We’ve added a new feature called “Miscellany” where we’ll be putting items of Masonic interest not directly related Lodge Temperance.
Continue Reading →We have just added a short biography of W. Bro. William Bell. A Freemason and founding member of Lodge Temperance 2557. You can read his story here.
Continue Reading →More good news for the Lodge Temperance 2557 website! Several pages have been updated and new ones added.
Continue Reading →2nd Lieutenant Walter Winkworth’s biography has been updated to include information recently found in the journals of the United Methodist Church and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Electrical Engineer’s WWI Roll of Honour.
Continue Reading →Officers and Brethren of Lodge Temperance 2557 are reminded there will be a coach meeting on Thursday April 9th 2015 and the regular meeting on April 21st 2015 both at the Masonic Hall, Corbridge Road, Byker, 7.00 sharp.
Continue Reading →If you’ve ever strolled through your local cemetery or perhaps looked at the graveyard of a village church you may have noticed Masonic symbols on some of the older headstones. We have now created a special page for the photos of these headstones.
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