Dear Brethren, Welcome to the November 2024 edition of the St. Nicholas Bugle. How quickly a month goes, and indeed even a year! November is the penultimate meeting in our Masonic year and one we usually describe as our business meeting to elect a Worshipful Master for the ensuing year. As is traditional in the…

Dear Brethren Welcome to the October 2024 edition of the St. Nicholas Bugle. Autumn seems to have arrived early this year and the warm jumpers and coats have made an unexpectedly early appearance. October is always a busy month in the Masonic calendar with the resumption of Royal Arch Chapter and other side orders, however…

 Dear Brethren,  Welcome to the September 2024 edition of the St. Nicholas Bugle! I hope you have all had an enjoyable summer and managed to enjoy some of the fine weather. I know our Worshipful Master has been out and about in his caravan making the most of it. In case you didn’t know, he…

 Dear Brethren,  Welcome to the August 2024 edition of the St. Nicholas Bugle! It was hot stuff at our August meeting and despite the sultry summer temperatures within the lodge, the St Nicholas brethren rose to the occasion and delivered a superb ceremony to raise Bro. Bradley Stevens to the sublime degree of a master…

 Dear Brethren,  Welcome to the July 2024 edition of the St. Nicholas Bugle. St Nicholas Lodge were delighted to welcome five guests and potential members to the Lodge White Table evening. This is the first one we have had since March 2019 and the guests were welcomed in to the lodge room after our regular…

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,…