Supporting Yorkshire Brain Tumour Charity

At the November meeting, (the annual inter-visit with our mother lodge, Loyalty Lodge) £372 was collected via the charity raffle. The Worshipful Master nominated Yorkshire Brain Tumour Charity as his selected charity to receive the donation. The charity is very close the the Worshipful Master’s heart after the recent sad, untimely death of a very close … Read more

Mothers and daughters and a new brother

On Tuesday 22nd November, The Lodge of Dawn hosted our mother lodge, Loyalty Lodge no 4971, for our annual lodge inter-visit. Each year we invite the brethren of our mother lodge to join us and to attend our ceremony. This year 18 brethren from Loyalty Lodge joined us to witness a First Degree ceremony. It … Read more

Dogs and Dawn

Sunday 20th November saw the first monthly dog walk of the year for the Lodge of Dawn. Despite days and days of pouring rain, the weather held up and Noah the Labrador, Barney the Spaniel, Douglas the Bearded Collie, Milo the Labradoodle and Bertie the Bedlington Terrier along with their owners, together with two dogless … Read more

The 75th new Worshipful Master

A week after The Lodge of Dawn celebrated it’s 75th anniversary, on Thursday September 29th 2022, the 75th Master of The Lodge of Dawn was installed. Phil Fraser was installed into the Chair of King Solomon; the mantle being handed over by the now IPM, W Bro. Christian Higgins, in a ceremony attended by more … Read more

Lodge of Fidelity Pool Tournament

Historically the Freemason’s mantra has been ‘brotherly love, relief and truth’. It can be translated into a more modern definition of ‘Personal Integrity, Friendship, Mutual Respect and Charitable Giving’. The Freemasons is simply a fraternal society that offers the opportunity to expand your circle of friends as well as community fundraising and personal self development. … Read more

Two Past Masters and two new Masons too

The June and July meetings of The Lodge of Dawn saw both ceremonies being conducted by Past Masters; W Bro. Stephen Brown and W Bro. John Lyons. The June ceremony was our annual ‘Past Masters Night’ and the July ceremony was our ‘end of season’ Scroll Night. Our June raising was Eóin Byrne, who subsequently … Read more

A new mason’s point of view…

Eóin Byrne, one of our newest Master Masons, shared his first year’s journey with us. It makes fascinating reading, and highlights many of the benefits of becoming a Freemason. Take it away, Eóin….. “Everyone has their own personal reason or story for joining Freemasonry. Some join to follow in the footsteps of a friend or … Read more

Minibus no show? No problem….

Back in December 2021 we were delighted to host a lodge inter-visit from brethren of Hadassah Lodge in Sheffield (you can read all about it here). This is a lodge inter-visit that used to occur regularly, but hasn’t happened for a number of years. The Lodge of Dawn has two former Masters from Hadassah as … Read more

Finally, the Junior Masters Night Festive Board

Festive Boards are always welcome after work in the Temple, but the FB following Junior Master’s Night three weeks ago unfortunately had to be cancelled at the last minute due to a gas leak. See here if you didn’t hear the story! Therefore Tuesday 7th June was special because we were finally able to hold … Read more