Red Cross Order Has New Intendant-General

The Masonic and Military Order of the Red Cross of Constantine has installed Max Bayes as its new Intendant-General. The event was also a milestone for the Grand Sovereign, Cdr Ronald Champion, as this was his last installation before his retirement, his 50th installation ceremony during his term in office.
     Over 100 Knights, including many Grand and Divisional Officers, attended the ceremony. The Intendant-General installed Michael Robinson as his deputy.

Red Letter Day for Notts Provincial Prior

The surviving founders of Corpus Christi Preceptory of Knights Templar No. 462, George Lovett, Bill Tyson and Owen Hall are pictured along with the Provincial Prior for Nottinghamshire, Michael Morris and Provincial Sub- Prior Christopher Rainbow, at a ceremonial visit by the acting officers of the Provincial Priory of Nottinghamshire to mark the 100th meeting since its consecration in 1975.
     It was a memorable meeting for the Provincial Prior, as he was the first candidate to be installed into the Preceptory in 1976!

Embroideress Extraordinary Makes Her Mark

Embroideress Anne Hall was the guest of honour at the recent Ceremony of Dedication of the new banner for St Laurence Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 893, Province of Worcestershire, at the Masonic Hall, King’s Heath, Birmingham.
     The wife of Provincial Grand Registrar Fred Hall, Anne, along with 144 other wives, friends and Mark Master Masons, witnessed the ceremony of dedicating the banner which she had made.
     The ceremony was performed by a team led by Francis Spencer, Mark Provincial Grand Master for Worcestershire.
     Anne was surprised when four other banners which she had made for Mark lodges in the Province were paraded into the lodge as a gesture of respect for her consummate skills in making such beautiful artefacts.
     At the Festive Board, Roger Bennett, Master of St Laurence Lodge, presented her with a bouquet of flowers, an inscribed cut glass vase and a rose called ‘Mrs Anne Hall’.

Order of the Secret Monitor Gains Strength in Cheshire and North Wales

The Order of the Secret Monitor (OSM) is continuing to grow in the Province of Cheshire and North Wales. In the past two years three Conclaves have been consecrated by Provincial Grand Supreme Ruler James McKeeman and his deputy Samuel Keery.
     The third consecration, of Conclave Maen Achwyfan No. 514 took place at the Lady Augusta Masonic Hall, Rhewl, Mostyn, where William Bell was installed as its first Supreme Ruler.
     The Conclave takes its name from an early British sculptured stone cross which stands alone in what is now a field, but was once moorland, with prehistoric burial grounds nearby.