The Lodge of Economy No:76                                                                       

Province of Hampshire & Isle of Wight                              2011 -- 250th ANNIVERSARY YEAR  -- 2011                                                                                                     

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Senior Officers of The Lodge

2010/2011

Our Worshipful Master
WBro P.L.Baker M.B.E


Senior Warden
WBro D.H.Robinson
P.P.J.G.D.

 Junior Warden
Bro J.L.Harvey

Chaplain
WBro T D L Sermon
P.P.J.G.W.
Treasurer
wBro J F Bayes
P.P.A.G.D.C

Secretary
WBro M Kershaw
P.P.J.G.W.
secretary76@gmail.com

 




Welcome.....

The Worshipful Master and Brethren welcome you to our lodge web-site.  We hope that you will enjoy your visit and that you will be interested in our ancient lodge and its wonderful history.

                                 

THE LODGE OF ECONOMY No. 76

"WARRANTED No.   88 (Athol) 29th January 1761   OTHER NUMBERS  111 (1814), 90 (1832),  76 (1863).

If there were such a thing as the 'mother' of the Province, it would have to be
                       THE LODGE OF ECONOMY No. 76. 


Almost one in every five Freemasons in the Province can trace his masonic 'ancestry' back to the small band headed by John Barton, who in 1761 were granted a Warrant by the Earl of Athol to:

"form and hold a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons aforesaid, at the house known by the sign of the Bakers' Arms, in the High Street, Winchester" ...... "This Warrant is renewed, the original having been burnt, this 7th. April, 1801"

    At least a thousand masons in the Province of Surrey can also trace their 'line' back to Economy."

(The above being extracts from "Masonic History of Hampshire & Isle of Wight".  WBro F. D. Laugharne, P.P.S.G.W)

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The Lodge meets at the Winchester Masonic Centre, Alresford Road, Winchester
on the last Wednesday of September through to April excluding December.

Visiting Brethren are ever welcomed to our meetings
partcularly so for our official Visitors Evening
held on last Wednesday of January.



 Our wonderful new banner which was dedicated on May 4th 2011, during the 250th anniversary celebrations of the founding of Lodge of Economy, at Winchester Guildhall by The Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Hampshire and Isle of Wight,
RW Bro Michael J. Wilks.
The banner may be seen to greater advantage in the "Inventory " section via the "Social Page" .



The Mason feels the noble truth the Scottish poet told
That Rank is but the guinea stamp, the man him self's the gold. 
With us the rich and poor unite and equal rights maintain
                                                                                     Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again!