Our Speaker Secretary is pleased to announce our MAMR Programme for 2024 

Our meetings normally begin at 7.00pm but this may vary according to location and subject. The general intention is to move around the north-western region to share variety and inclusion.

Most meetings are open to all, dress code is typically smart casual unless otherwise advised in the individual listing

More detail will be added here once finalised - please check back

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Wednesday January 31st 2024. 7.00pm. Venue - Cheshire View Masonic Centre, Plough Lane, Christleton, Chester, CH3 7PT. This venue has excellent parking.

‘Twelve names on a window pane. The earliest Provincial Grand Masters’

RW Bro. Roger Pemberton will deliver a paper with special reference to the often eccentric, local characters who were among the first Provincial Grand Masters in our Constitution.

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Wednesday March 20th 2024. 7.00pm. Venue – Freemasons’ Hall, Roft Street, Oswestry, Shropshire SY11 2EP. This venue has excellent parking.

‘Black Musicians who were and are Freemasons in America.’

Bro. Janet Brown is currently the Grand Organist in The Order of Women’s Freemasonry.

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Saturday May 18th 2024 MAMR on Tour. A Visit to Bath Masonic Hall in Old Orchard Street.   This beautiful listed building has been the home of Bath Freemasons for more than 150 years, and was originally built in 1750 as the first purpose-built theatre in the city.  It remained the home of the Theatre Royal until 1805, when their company moved to their current site in Beauford Square.  It was used as a Catholic Chapel from 1809 until 1863, before it was acquired in 1865 as a permanent home for the three Lodges of Bath Freemasons that met here at that time.

Those three Lodges, Royal Cumberland Lodge (formed in 1732), Royal Sussex Lodge (1812) and the Lodge of Honour (1825), still meet there today.

There will also be a guided tour of Bath Abbey and free time for those who want to visit the Roman Baths. More details will be published later.

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Friday 24th May 2024 European Masonic Association Meet at Cheshire View Masonic Centre, Plough Lane, Christleton, Chester, CH3 7PT. This venue has excellent parking.

The EMA's aims are to promote and expand the concept of Masonic Brotherhood, Friendship and Harmony between brethren throughout Europe and to promote the exchange of Masonic ideas and cultural understanding between European nations through fraternal visits and social gatherings.

More details will be published later.

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Wednesday September 25th 2024 7.00pm. Venue - Manchester Hall, 36, Bridge Street, Manchester M3 3BT. Suggested Parking Spinningfields NCP at New Quay Street, Manchester M3 3BE.

Bro. Christopher Powell  ‘A close look at the Cana Chapter Aprons and Robes displayed at Bridge Street Masonic Hall, Manchester and what they tell us about the early history of the Royal Arch in England.’

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Monday 18th November 2024 6.30pm. Venue - The Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh St, Liverpool L3 5UL. A Summons will be sent by e mail to all interested in joining us on this visit.

‘A visit to Lodge 32’ (This is a tyled meeting)

St George's Lodge of Harmony No 32 has had an extraordinary history. From probably quite humble beginnings it rose, in the nineteenth century in particular, to become one of the most eminent lodges in the country. Its members have included merchants, lawyers, landowners, farmers, peers, politicians, academics, doctors and more recently also young men involved in the modern cyber-world and its associated industries.

By 1755, Liverpool was still, in shape and size, very much a medieval town with narrow streets and overhanging houses with narrow passages, much squalor and overcrowding; but it was here, in the Bird in Hand tavern, Castle Ditch - now James Street, the site of the moat of the old castle - that Lodge 32 was born on 27th December.

Like many lodges of our antiquity, they have changed their meeting place many times over the years, taking with us our own unique furniture, in particular our dining table made up of a number of large mahogany leaves fixed to a framework, round which we dine. The full extent of the table determines the finite number of those who can dine. We dine by candle-light, and unusually for a present-day lodge, we dine in our regalia.