FROM THE ARCHIVE · 1953
Ulster Lodge in 1953
Fifty years after the consecration at the Hotel Cecil, the Lodge published A Jubilee Review to record its first half-century.
A Lodge looking back — and forward
The surviving Jubilee booklet is only twelve pages long, but it preserves a remarkable snapshot of Ulster Lodge at fifty. It contains the Lodge’s early history, the succession of Past Masters, its honorary members, the 1953 officers and a brief account of the Lodge of Instruction.
The booklet also shows how strongly the Lodge still understood itself through its Ulster connections. It was a London Lodge, but one conscious of the people and Masonic relationships that linked it to Ireland.
The Jubilee Review
Published: 1953
Occasion: Golden Jubilee
Consecrated: 13 November 1903
Length: 12 pages
Office-bearers for 1953
The booklet also names J. Hamilton, F. W. Kennedy, F. J. W. Deering, H. P. Hunter, A. C. C. Gotto, S. K. Fisher and R. M. Corry as Stewards.
What else survives in the booklet?
The Jubilee Review is now becoming a series of linked archive articles. Start with these:
- The day a flying bomb passed over Ulster Lodge
- Why Ulster Lodge is a Hall Stone Lodge
- The story of the Red Hand badge and banner
- The extraordinary Semi-Jubilee of 1928
- The Ulster Lodge of Instruction
- How the Blitz destroyed the early Lodge records
- Ulster Lodge and the Irish Masonic network in London
- The remarkable men connected with Ulster Lodge by 1953
- Four unusual moments from the first fifty years
- How Ulster Lodge secured its place at Freemasons’ Hall
More coming soon
This is the beginning of our online transcription of the Jubilee material. More pages, documents and biographies will be added as the Lodge archive is checked and digitised.