Just six months after consecrating the Province's 92nd Lodge - Terpsichore Lodge No 9874 - the Province has consecrated its 93rd -
Silverstone Lodge No 9877. Three Lodge numbers separate the two Lodges.
On Saturday, 11 May, in the second Masonic meeting to be held in the new Freemasons Hall, Sheaf Close in Northampton, the Provincial Consecration Team led by the Provincial Grand Master, RWBro Max Bayes, conducted the ceremony in magnificent style to the delight of the 210 who attended.
Silverstone Lodge - getting off to a flying start - is the latest of the Province's special interest Lodges. It is for those with an affinity to motor sport and the village of Silverstone deemed to be the Home of British Motorsport and will meet at the Silverstone Recreational Association Pavilion.
There are already Lodges that cater for motor cycle enthusiasts - Graham Milton Lodge No 9796 in this Province - but Silverstone Lodge is unique in being the first to cater for motor sport enthusiasts.
In his oration the Provincial Grand Chaplain, WBro Ray Hemingray, presented the Lodge with a chequered flag which he compared with the chequered pavement of a Freemasons' Lodge. He suggested the flag might be placed under the Volume of the Sacred Law when Masons are raised. This would remind them that their raising was not the end of their Masonic journey which could not be complete until, when the time was right, they took the next necessary step in Freemasonry by joining the Holy Royal Arch.
The Lodge's first Candidate for initiation is the son of its first Worshipful Master, WBro Dermot Bambridge. It meets four times a year on a Friday eveining to coincide with weekend events at Silverstone Circuit .