History

He appointed W/Bro Thomas Hood (PM Priory Lodge 1000) to be the first Master, Bro. Walter Scott Miller the Senior Warden and W/Bro Frederick England the Junior Warden.

On the warrant it states that the meetings were to take place at the Westcliff Hotel on the third Saturday’s in September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April and May.

However, for some reason (not known) a Notice of Motion dated 28^th October 1907 was approved cancelling the May and September meetings. The April and December meetings were also cancelled but we have no record of when this occurred.

Another Notice of Motion in 1900 changed the venue to the Masonic Hall, Whitegate Road, where meetings were held until March 1909. From 1909 until 1924 the Lodge met at the Victoria Hotel in Southend High Street (on the corner of Victoria Circus where Barclay’s Bank is now sited). In 1924 the Lodge moved to Garon's Restaurant (further down Southend High Street) where it remained until we moved to the Woodgrange Drive temple in 1957 finally moving to our present magnificent temple in Saxon Hall during 2006.

It is interesting to see that from 1898 until 1936 it was the custom for each reigning Master to sign his name on the Warrant. Why this stopped is not known, but perhaps it was suddenly realised that when the warrant is delivered into the hand of the newly installed Master his predecessor tells him that he will transmit it, pure and unsullied, as he now receives it!

At the second meeting of the Lodge on 21^st January 1899, W/Bro Albert Lucking took the chair and initiated his brother Edward and five other gentlemen gentlemen! At the February meeting they were Passed to the Degree of a Fellowcraft; and at the May meeting they were all raised!

The Deacons certainly had their work cut out for them in those days.

W/Bro Doug Innell

History

Roll call of

Past Masters

CONSECRATED 29th OCTOBER 1898

Albert Lucking Lodge 2717

PROVINCE OF ESSEX

Text Box: INDEX In the beginning by W/Bro Douglas Innell scroll down The Masonic career of Albert Lucking by W/Bro Douglas Innell A brief history of our lodge meeting venues by W/Bro Richard Hartwell Pictures of Saxon Hall including link to Microsoft Virtual Earth... The Lodge Summons by W/Bro Douglas Innell A condensed history of the life of WILLIAM MARLOW a very ‘DRAMATIC’ founder member of the Lodge with thanks to W/Bro Robert Mount ‘Albert Brown’ a past member re-discovered by W/Bro Richard Hartwell

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The warrant was prepared and cost ten pounds, ten shillings.

The 20 petitioners paid two shillings and sixpence each for registration and a Book of Constitutions purchased for one shilling and sixpence, the total cost being £13.1.6d.

In the beginning...

In 1890, Southend was a rapidly growing town and there was only one Masonic Lodge in the borough, Priory Lodge 1000.

It was felt that another Lodge needed to be formed and 20 brethren from various Lodges signed a Petition which was submitted to the Earl of Warwick, Provincial Grand Master for Essex, to form a new Lodge to be called the Albert Lucking Lodge.

The Petition was submitted by the officers of the St. Clement’s Lodge No 2442 who met at the Bell Hotel, Leigh-on-Sea.

The submission was made on 21^st May 1898 and granted on 1^st June.