Lodge Trivia

Lodge Banner

At the time of manufacture it was fortuitously observed that the hands on our banner had FIVE fingers and a thumb. Needlessly to say it was swiftly corrected.

First Worshipful Master

W. Bro. Donald Lewis Lewis was the first Master of Princes Lodge in 1982/83 year

First Initiate

W. Bro. Brian George was the first initiate on 6th December 1983, he was installed as Worshipful Master in October 1994.

W. Bro. Brian's initiate was W. Bro. Alun Morton

on 6th December 1994, he was installed as Worshipful Master in October 2003

An average of ten years from Initiate to Master

Membership

Since the Lodge was founded in 1982 we've had .........

An average overall annual membership of thirty two

An average of twenty two brethren attending each Regular Lodge meeting

An average of twenty six visitors at each

Regular Lodge meeting.

From 1982 to 2014 we had ..............

81 members comprising 24 founders, 45 initiates

and 12 joining members

37 resignations

12 deceased

Grand Lodge Officers

have been ......

W Bro Donald Lewis Lewis OBE

W Bro Anthony Francis Moore MBE

W Bro John Child FCA DL

Current Grand Lodge Officer

is W Bro John Child FCA, DL, PAGDC

The First Ever

Grand Lodge Officer

The Lodge motto is

Brawdgarwch

A Welsh word, loosely translated for the term 'Brotherly Love' or 'Brotherliness'

Charity

Princes Lodge donates an average of £983.00 annually to Masonic & Local charity, and will donate in excess of £16k to the 2021 Festival

Lodge Banner

The Banner was hand crafted by Mrs Anne O'Neill the wife of W Bro Arthur O'Neill PPrJGW. The work was completed in 684 hours, with 200,000 stitches from 2.5 miles of silk thread

It was 'Dedicated' at a special meeting held on Saturday 21st June 1997, the ceremony was conducted by V W Bro Roy Hopkin RN;DepProvGM