Manchester March 2016

The Installation of the Master Elect will take place at 12:00 Noon on Saturday 19th March 2016 at Freemason's Hall , Bridge Street, Manchester. The meeting will be followed by a traditional Festive Board. The festive Board will finish at around 5:30 p.m. Alan Turton, our Senior Warden and WM elect provided some technical details: I am pleased and relieved to announce we have an hotel booked for our Manchester installation meeting. We will be having our Friday night gathering with buffet and staying at IBIS Central Manchester on Portland St. 12 minutes walk from the Masonic Hall and 11 mins from the railway station. IBIS at Portland St. are holding 40 rooms for 2 night bookings and you must book and pay 30 days in advance. Please remember to book the hotel and it MUST be booked before the 13th of February ! Note: Payment for this informal 2 course Buffet dinner will be direct to the Hotel on the Bill for those staying there or by cash on the evening. Buffet to be booked on IL website ! IBIS hotel Booking form and Contract was sent by email to all of us. Lastly for those travelling by car there is a Q car park on St. James Street at the back of the hotel. Parking is £22 / 24 hours just park and take the ticket. Ibis will then issue a discount card which gives their customers a 30% discount. For prices/room, terms and conditions, click here The hotel booking form is here  

  Alan Turton, our Senior Warden and WM elect writes: Brethren, "Happy will We Meet !"Dear Brethren and Partners, Sue and I look forward to a wonderful gathering and meeting for our Internet Lodge 9659 Installation weekend and do hope that as many as possible will be able to share in our festivities and our Meeting. I look forward with great anticipation to being Installed into the Chair of our great Lodge and have high hopes for a wonderful year. The subject of my address to the meeting will be “Our Fututure”, that of Internet Lodge and in my year the future of Freemasonry. We are sure this will be yet another great IL weekend further cementing our Lodge and “Our Social Gatherings”, shared with our partners. Due to truly being spread over the "Four Quarters of our Globe" and the nature of our Lodge my thoughts also go out to our Brethren who on this occasion, due to distance and maybe circumstances cannot be with us. I hope you may all in a meaningful way be able to share with us in what we are about to celebrate and the Fraternal Love and Hope that will be generated. Absent Brethren you will be in our hearts and minds and I do hope our Web Pages with pre views, recording of events and postings will keep you feeling wrapped in our fraternal warmth. With much Fraternal love.Alan & Sue For our Ladies and Partners Sue would like to take you all to the University Museum while we do the Lodge bit: Dear All, I think we are near the Trafford Centre so some may like to go shopping.I would like to offer an alernative. The museum on Oxford Road looks very interesting. Entry to the museum is free but most museums charge an entrance fee to any special exibitions on display. From the map it looks like the museum is within walking distance of the hotel. We may need to grab a taxi or 2 as my map reading is not advanced enough to lead anyone (we may never find Oxford Road) You could learn how to cast a spell on your partners.Here is the web site so you can have a look.. We're the Museum on Oxford Road with the dinosaurs, mummies and live animals. We also have loads of other great stuff from the natural world and different cultures. These include fossils, rocks and minerals, stuffed animals, birds and insects, money, archery, lots of things made or used by people from different cultures and archaeological finds (including ancient Egyptian, Roman and Greek).’ Ghosts, witches, sorcerers and demons: our fascination with the supernatural stretches back centuries. Experience how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone from kings and queens to clergymen and maidservants.Magic, Witches and Devils in the Early Modern World reveals how magic, diabolical witchcraft, and ghostly encounters inspired fear and curiosity on an unprecedented scale between the 15th and 18th centuries. The exhibition illuminates the roots of our obsession with supernatural power and explores a world where the Devil was understood as a real and present danger in daily life.This is one of the exibitions that might catch your imagination and its free.Have a look, they have a special exibition on till May, Here is the web site so you can see. Satturday Evening - We will gather in the IBIS Bar to enjoy each others company, socialise and relax. bar food is available and for any who wish to go out and dine we are in the middle of China Town.Our warmest regards to all.Alan & Sue