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AMD Awareness Evening

Details: Published: Friday, 24 September 2021 10:45

A splendid introduction to the Allied Masonic Degrees and the District of London at our Zoom AMD Awareness Evening.

The event was hosted by our District Grand Prefect R.W. Bro. Colin Woodcock, and attendees were treated to a superb summary of our 5 degrees by Bro. Matthew Christmas; W. Bro. Scott Cargill gave a splendid overview of our Councils and the Regalia and Bro. Steve Roberts gave an insight into how we engage with our membership.

The cherry on top was, of course, having our Grand Master M.W. Bro. Thomas F. Jackson joining us for the event.

The evening concluded with a Q&A session with some interesting questions from our, hopefully, prospective candidates.

Londinium No.47 - It's good to be back!

Details: Published: Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:10

Londinium are back.

Tuesday 18th May 2021 saw the first meeting of a London Council since the lifting of restrictions. 12 Members and guests of Londinium Council No.47 assembled at Mark Masons' Hall to install W. Bro. Stephen Schofield into the chair of St. Lawrence.

What a joy it was, travelling into London, walking up Pall Mall, walking into reception at MMH and greeting the receptionist as if he was some long lost brother, climbing the stairs to the Warwickshire room and finally seeing brethren (albeit with masks on) who we had only seen via zoom meetings during this blip in our masonic lives.

The Council was opened but sadly the first order of business was to remember W. Bro. Mick Randall, who sadly passed away in June 2020. W. Bro. Ian Ness gave the eulogy.

Grand Council Certificates were then presented in fine manner by our District Grand Secretary W. Bro. Scott Cargill, to three of the brethren.

Then it was onto the main event.

W. Bro. Colin Howard as always doing a splendid job of installing W. Bro. Stephen Schofield for the first time as Master in an AMD Council.

The rest of the formalities over the new Master closed the Council and we retired to partake of a wonderful socially distanced meal.

Only 10 dining on 2 tables but the chat and laughter was great to hear. As I said at the start it was a joy to be there from start to finish.

Let us hope that our meetings may now long continue without further interruption.

It's here, finally! - A Shot in the Arm Edition 3

Details: Published: Monday, 10 May 2021 10:03

The 3rd and final edition of A Shot in the Arm is now available.

Read the final edition of our periodical here.

We were enthralled - "Hearts of Oak - The Story of the VC Part 2"

Details: Published: Wednesday, 14 April 2021 12:29

At the District Spring Social Evening held on 13 April almost 80 members of AMD London, their family, friends and guests, had the pleasure of listening to Mark Smith deliver the second part of his Victoria Cross talk - "Hearts of Oak" - via Zoom. Mark had presented the first part - "For Valour" - at our Autumn Social Evening back in November 2019.

He kept us enthralled with stories of extreme bravery shown by some of the 1355 recipients of the VC; stories which illustrated the types of motivation behind those humbling acts - doing your duty, helping friends and colleagues, or simply "getting angry" at the enemy.

All the stories Mark told support the quotation from Winston Churchill - "To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents...",or, alternatively "cometh the hour, cometh the man."

There were several questions from the audience, after which the District Grand Prefect thanked Mark.

Our grateful thanks to Mark for such a fascinating evening, and for staying on afterwards to chat more about the VC and also his time on Antiques Roadshow.