A Very Special Meeting

A cohort of forty-five people, including twelve wives and partners, made the long trip from West Wales to London for the first ever Light Blues Communication. The event was to give Light Blues (Junior Masons) the opportunity to visit the magnificence of the Freemasons Hall and experience something akin to a full Quarterly Communication.

Trains, buses, and cars arrived in the capital across Friday for the weekend’s events, which commenced at 5pm with a guided tour of the Museum at Freemason’s Hall on Great Queen Street. Those in attendance were provided with history lessons on many topics, including how the Moderns and Antients brought together their different flavours of masonry to form the United Grand Lodge; with the letter cementing this agreement being on prominent permanent display. Other notable items included works from famous Freemasons including Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as an incredibly special apron that belonged to former Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself!

During the communication, around 1200 brethren from across the UK and beyond watched as members of Lodge 10K (Sine Nominee) opened the day’s proceeding. Shortly before the Pro Grand Master, Jonathan Spence, flanked by Grand Masters from Metropolitan Grand Lodge and the Provinces, including our very own James Ross, Head of West Wales Freemasons, entered the hall. There, all in attendance we were treated to presentations from Light Blues Clubs on initiatives and strategies employed by Junior Masons to excel and progress their freemasonry.

The event has been hailed as an enormous success and has certainly demonstrated the wealth of fresh ideas coming from the newer members of the organisation as we move masonry forward into the future and beyond. Should another Light Blues Communication be held in the future, and the early indications are that it will, then we would encourage any qualifying members to give attending serious consideration, as a wonderful time was indeed had by all.