| | | |  | | | W Bro Jack Smith PProvSGW celebrated his 100th Birthday in February 2009 ! The Deputy Provincial Grand Master visited Jack at his home to deliver not only his best wishes for his centenary Birthday but also the Provincial Grand Masters certificate for 50 years service to Freemasonry. More details on the EVENTS page | | | | | | |  | | | The WM made a small surplus of around £125.00 on his accounts for his year 2008-9 which he has kindly donated to Macmillan Nurses. | | | | | | |  | | | At the end of February 2009 the total figure for the Warwickshire 2012 Festival stood at £1,341,253
(source: Warwickshirepgl.org.uk 06/03/2009 ) | | | | | | | 
| | | The Freemasons' Grand Charity has announced it is donating £600,000 to Hospices across England and Wales. This funding takes the total donations from the Grand Charity to the hospice movement to £7.5 million . Hospices in the Province which have already benefitted include Mary Ann Evans Hospice (Nuneaton), Myton Hamlet Hospice (Warwick) and Shakespeare Hospice (Stratford). ( source: warwickshirepgl.org.uk 24/11/2008 ) | | | | | | |  | | | Alderson House has now been fitted with air conditioning and heating in the Lodge room, Dining room and rehearsal room. ( September 2008 ) | | | | | | | | | | | Building work has now been completed at Alderson House. The lift has
been fully installed giving access to the first floor and we now have air conditioning and heating in the Lodge Room , Dining and rehearsal rooms. (source: WM 16/9/2008) |
 |  | | At our April meeting we warmly welcome the fraternal intervisitation of our friends from The Chipping Campden Lodge . The Lodge of Warwick visits Chipping Camden at Christmas each year and they return the favour in by joining us each April. | | | |
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Waveney Lodge Fraternal Visit
On Wednesday 3rd November 2005 Three Worshipful.Brothers from
Lodge of Warwick travelled to the Installation Meeting of Waveney Lodge No.929 at Bungay in Suffolk ; a round trip of some 326 miles !
Leaving Warwick at 1pm we made our traditional stop for tea and
pancakes near Cambridge and arrived in plenty of time .
This fraternal visit follows a tradition which has been observed for a great number of years as one of our members has a younger brother
in Waveney Lodge and is a welcome visitor to our Lodge.
Three of us maintained this tradition to attend the Waveney Lodge
Installation Meeting who in turn, reciprocate and visit us each March
for our own Installation Meeting . Their ceremony is a little different
from our own, as those have the pleasure of attending will find out !
Waveney Lodge entertained us in their usual fine style ; there were
a total of 77 members and guests in the Lodge. Afterwards at the
Festive Board in excess of £300 was raised in aid of their charities by way of the traditional collection and a raffle with several prizes. | | | |
| | | | | |  Three well travelled Brethren arrived back
in Warwick at 1.30pm following a
diversion around Northampton, replete,
tired but looking forward to next year
already
Thankyou Waveney Lodge
" it were a Grand do ! "
By W.Bro Steven Price
P.Prov.G.Reg
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| | | | | The Sun Never Sets on Warwick Lodges | |
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During his Mastership of the Lodge of
Warwick W. Bro John Walker-Smith
set himself the challenge of visiting
all the Warwick Masonic Lodges in
the World.
He personally took greetings from
Warwick , England to Brethren of all
Warwick Lodges and help unite three
continents.
It has been John's tremendous
work which has helped to cement
Fraternal links with the Worldwide
family of Warwick Lodges
This is John's Story. | 
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I became so fascinated with how
Freemasonry had spread throughout
the World that during my term as
Master of the Lodge in 1999 I set out to
visit every other Lodge in the world
bearing the name of “Warwick”.
There are three that are acknowledged by
The United Grand Lodge of England:
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| Our first visit was the town of Warwick , Australia
- population 12,000 - situated about 70 miles inland
from Brisbane on the East Coast.
My wife and I were very kindly accommodated in the
home of a Mason who took time off work to show us
around and it was a wonderful experience.
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|  | | | | During my visit I had the pleasure of joining The Lodge of J.W.Jackson No.32 Mark Master Masons. Names after J.W.Jackson, who introduced Freemasonry to Queensland. Afternoon tea with the Mayor had been arranged who proudly showed us his Chain of Office - an exact replica of the Mayor’s Chain back home in Warwick , England. | | |
 | | In August 1999 we set off for USA
and New York
Arriving at grand Lodge in Lower Manhatten the Grand Secretary gave us a tour of the 12 temples that comprise Grand Lodge ; each one furnished with its own theme such as Colonial ,French and Egyptian.
The pretty town of Warwick is about 60 miles north of New York .To mark the occasion the Mayor had declared it to be Masons Day in the Town | | | |
| The Lodge Meeting was packed and I was surprised to
see about a third of the Members wearing jeans since
our own Lodge always meets in Dinner Suits / Black tie
for every regular meeting
It was a very happy occasion, especially as the Master
from Rhode Island had travelled down with a party of 8,
and the Master from Warwick, Australia had also
made the special journey.
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"AldersonHouse"
Watercolour painting by
W.Bro J.F.W Reason | | At every visit I took with me a copy of the painting of our own Lodge Rooms, and now I’m proud to say that Alderson House, High Street, Warwick, England is hanging in every other “Warwick” Lodge room in the world.
The friendship and kindness was over-whelming & I still keep in contact with them all. I have to thank everyone for making our visits so special.
It was the happiest of times and was the greatest of pleasures to be associated with such fine, honest and decent people.
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| | | | |  | | | The story of the historic meeting on 10th. August 1999 when Masters of all four Warwick Lodges met has been recorded in " The Queensland Mason " click on the picture above
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