St Nicholas Lodge 2586

Dear Brethren, We are almost halfway through the year already and the warm weather seems to be elusive this year! I must apologise for the lateness of this edition as I have been away in the USA visiting family. This meant that regrettably I missed our June meeting, however I am reliably informed by the…

Dear Brethren, 2024 seems to be advancing at pace and May seems to have stealthily crept up on us and we are now approaching the May Day Bank Holiday. May Day as a celebration dates back over two thousand years, falling roughly between the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice Taking its rise in the fertility…

Dear Brethren, It’s now April, the clocks have changed, the evenings are longer and spring is definitely in evidence all around us. St Nicholas Lodge was very much in full bloom at our regular meeting on 3rd April, where we welcomed three new members to the lodge – even our Treasurer joked that he would…

Dear Brethren A spring was in our step on Wednesday as we conducted our second initiation ceremony of the year and welcomed our new made brother, Jay Williamson-Jones, proposed by Bro. Lee Holmes and seconded by our Worshipful Master, Roger Kaye. Bro. Williamson-Jones, an ex-serviceman and now a merchant seaman working on the off-shore wind…

Dear Brethren! It still feels like a bit like Winter at the moment but signs of Spring and life are starting to appear after a pretty wet Winter. It certainly didn’t feel like Winter at the St Nicholas Lodge on Wednesday as we initiated our first candidate of 2024 in the person of Daniel Vass,…

Happy New Year Brethren! Welcome to the first edition of the St Nicholas Lodge Bugle and on behalf of our new Worshipful Master, Roger Kaye, may we wish you a very happy and healthy new year. Our first meeting of the year is always near to New Years Day and we had the pleasure of…

An archive of Bugles from late 2023 for your reference.