The Dorset Masonic Shooting Association is a club open to all Freemasons, regardless of rank or age. A firearms certificate is not required to join the club and ‘club’ guns are available for use at all of our events. At present there isn’t a joining fee. We are an informal club and we try to […]
It was on New Year’s Day in 1786, 236 years ago, that the 785 ton East Indiaman set sail from Gravesend for Madras with 242 souls on board. In command was Captain Peirce embarking on his final voyage before retirement. Amongst the seven female passengers, all being despatched to India to find husbands, were his […]
A unique event in a Dorset Lodge For the first time ever in a Dorset Lodge the assembled Brethren witnessed the passing from the Installing Master to the newly Installed Master a Collarette to which was appended a Hall Stone Jewel. In 1920 Letters were sent from the Grand Master the Duke of Connaught KG […]