At our March Regular meeting, we had a presentation of the history of our lodge during the war times, an explanation of the tracing board for our new lodge members and a visiting brethren from the province led by VW Bro Batley.
We kicked off the new year in 2023 in style, with a new candidate for initiation. After the ballot proved in his favour and with permission from the RW Bro R Guthrie, Provincial Grand Master, he was promptly initiated into freemasonry according to our ancient rites and customs.
Our installation meeting in December was a milestone for the Lodge of Honour. This is the first time in years we had a full year’s worth of meetings since the pandemic.
The Lodge of Honour’s Curry Club is a celebration of our mutual love of a good curry. The curry club welcomes all members, friends and family and provides a relaxed environment outside of our lodge meetings to socialise. Normally held on the last Friday every other month, the organising member takes charge of deciding where we are to meet and makes advance bookings at the restaurant.
On June 12th, the brethren of the Lodge of Honour No 379, held their first of hopefully many Summer Potlucks. All lodge members were invited along with families and friends, plus a few potential members.
The Bath Festival Fringe this year is on for fourteen nights between 29th May and 12th June, with different events covering a wide range of music and comedy tastes. These include a charity event in aid of the Frome Charity “We Hear You” on Tuesday June 7th where all proceeds from ticket sales will go direct to the Charity.
On 7th April at the Provincial Grand Lodge of Somerset Annual Meeting, the Lodge of Honour, represented by its Worshipful Master and willing brethren presented the travelling trowel to the RW Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Somerset.
At our second regular meeting of the year, we welcomed our new initiate and received the Travelling Trowel from Gerard Lodge no 8999.
At our very first regular meeting of the year we commemorated the Lodge’s 197th Anniversary, taking us another year closer to our bi-centenary in 2025. While originally petitioned as “The Tynte Lodge of Honour and Independence”, on the 23rd February 1825 that Grand Lodge issued our warrant under the name “The Lodge of Honour”.
