Morecambe Mark Installation |
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Monday Night the 8th October 2012, 6.30pm approaches and a veritable Galaxy of Masonic legends | ||
gathered in the Temple at Morecambe. The main business of the evening was to install into the chair of | ||
Morecambe Mark Lodge Bro. Thomas Henry Reaney. | ||
With 60 Mark Lodges in the province installations are not a rarity, all are special but tonight this | ||
installation was not only rare but also very very special. Tom had started his trip to the chair of Adoniram a | ||
mere thirty two years earlier. | ||
Pictures above Keith Kemp prepares for what is to come. |
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The Provincial Grand Junior Warden, Russell Greenhow entered the lodge flanked by W.Bro's Tony Harrison, | ||
P.G.J.O., P.D.Prov.GM. Brian Davey, P.G.S.D. Special Rep, Stuart Brackstone P.G.S.D. and Geoff Lee G.J.D. | ||
and other Grand Mark Officers. | ||
The installing Master, W.Bro. Keith Kemp had prepared his ceremony to the nth degree ably assisted | ||
by the Lodge DC W.Bro. Keith Lamb and ADC W.Bro. Alan Gregory. He appointed his installing officers | ||
W.Bro's. Schofield as Senior Warden, John Wild as Junior Warden and the Inner Guard was Colin Martin. | ||
Bro Tom Reaney was installed into the Chair of Adoniram in an impeccable fashion by W.Bro. Keith. | ||
The Lodge Officers were appointed and Invested following which he was presented with the Key Stone | ||
Jewel by W.Bro. R Gibson. He has addressed by Tony Harrison after which John Stanley addressed to | ||
Wardens, John Hulme to the Overseers and the brethren by Russell Greenhow. All were first class. | ||
Following the ceremony the brethren | ||
retired to a very pleasant banquet where | ||
the New Master regaled the brethren with | ||
tales of his youth when he had been | ||
brought up in a 'proper' circus, you know | ||
what he means one with animals! | ||
No reflection on us then! | ||
When the brethren tipped out at the end | ||
the sky was clear. | ||
All stars were out for Tom. |
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And it only took 90 minutes + 32 years! | ||
Left: Geoff Lee G.J.D. | ||
Russell Greenhow, Prov. Junior Warden | ||
W.Bro. Tom Reaney, The Master and | ||
Tony Harrison, P.G.J.O. P.Dep.Prov.GM. | ||
below left Tom and Keith enjoy the meal and right Master of Jubilee Mark W. Bro. Ray Dickinson | ||
Stewart Brackstone, Tony Harrison , Brian Davey and Russell Greenhow |
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Article and photographs courtesy of Mike Beesley, Web Master | ||