No Growing Pains Here

Are statistics important ? Well, if anything they could throw up very interesting information. Recently my SW, Bro.Vaughan, did an extensive study of our membership levels over the last 5 years and the results were quite revealing.

Some of our New Brethren

The data was retrieved from our recent Grand Lodge Membership returns and shows that in the 5 years from 2007 to 2012 our active membership has increased by 70% from 17 to today's figure of 29 and the average age has dropped by 10% from 58 to 53 . Quite impressive you may well say!!

Masonic Burns' Night

North Harrow Lodge no.6557

Presents

BURNS NIGHT DINNER
On

FRIDAY 18^th JANUARY 2013

To be Held at Harrow District Masonic Centre, Kenton, Middlesex, after Our Lodge Meeting starting at 4.15pm, 
where we are Performing a Double Initiation Ceremony
and

Presenting 3 Grand Lodge Certificates

The Piper is Booked

The Address to the Haggis is arranged

With a wee dram o’ whisky

Dining Fee £25

For Further Details & to Book in with :

Nigel Harris-Cooksley (Secretary)

020 8866 8721 Or E-Mail :

Secretary@NorthHarrowLodge.org

A Secretary's Lot is a Happy One

When I took over as Secretary of  6557 a year ago, I  acknowledged from my predecessor of 18 years that it was not going to be easy. That was an understatement. No one tells you about the copious amounts paperwork and form filling involved sometimes on a day to day basis.
However, it is a job that gives satisfaction, especially when best laid plans come together as it has done in North Harrow Lodge over the last year !!

I have had amazing support from the Lodge members, from giving apologies when not being able to attend meeting ( as booking correct numbers at FBs are so important ), attending numerous meetings to interview the many prospective candidates, joining me in visits to other Lodges who had agreed to perform ceremonies on our behalf, to a fantastic turnout from our members at the Middlesex Provincial Family Fete where we donated £1000 being the proceeds of our BBQ stall and enabled the total raised on the event to exceed a staggering £21,500 this year.

Our Newest Initiate
and his good Lady

Another event high in the Middlesex Province's calendar is the Service of Thanksgiving, which was at Guildford Cathedral. This event is one of the only times that the public are able to see Freemasons paraded in their full dress regalia. This year 6 of us including our partners and our Newest Initiate and his good lady had the pleasure of attending the event, where hundreds of Masons packed the Cathedral to the gunnels.
More Photos are available at the Province's Website
The next venture of North Harrow Lodge is at our next meeting at which we are performing ANOTHER Double initiation, presenting 3 Grand Lodge Cerificates and a Burn's Night on the 18th January 2013. The candidates are ready,The Certificates should be, The Piper is booked!! The Address to the Haggis is organised, the Drams of whiskey are ordered and most importantly the projected numbers are increasing daily and are exceeding 50 to date.
To book in contact me through the website of North Harrow Lodge

Best Laid Plans of Mice & Masons

Isn't it great when a plan comes together !!! Well almost.

To perform an initiation at our installation meeting last Friday was a little ambitious to say the least, even if we only were to Proclaim that the Master remained in the chair for a further year. The time flew and even though we started at 4.15 we didn't finish until 7.30pm !! what a marathon. (dinner was booked for 7.15pm) oopps!! Fail !!

50 years How we've Changed

North Harrow Lodge
Ladies' Night 1971

A pictorial view of almost Fifty Years of North Harrow Lodge's Ladies Festivals....Gone in a Blink of an eye... especially when you're enjoying yourselves.

Greetings From H.M Queen 1971

Pushing the boundaries

Proof that some things weren't checked!!

As our first regular meeting of the new 2012/13 season is rapidly approaching on Friday the 12th October, it falls  upon yours truly as Lodge Secretary to try and get things right before the meeting and then pass on the reigns to our Director of Ceremonies to make sure the meeting runs like clockwork.

Only after the summons were sent out did I realise that this year time permitted us, for the first time since the Lodge was formed back in the dark days of 1948, to do something extraordinary,