Provincial News & Events

Keystone Classic Golf Competition

The inaugural North Wales Mark Master Mason Keystone Classic Golf Competition will be played at two golf courses in May and June 2026.

The competition is open to Mark Master Masons and guests and Freemasons from the Craft on invitation of a Mark Master Mason.

The Keystone Classic will be played at Mold Golf Club on Friday 22nd May and at Bull Bay Golf Club on Friday 26th June.

The cost of playing is the green fee of £35 and £45 retrospectively. The cost to members of playing at their own golf club will be that which is relevant to their individual membership. The competition scoring format will be Individual Stableford using a 98% handicap allowance; the highest handicap for entry is 28. Tee times will be from 10:50am, golfers are requested to arrive an hour before play.

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PGL of MMM of North and East Yorkshire

It was an early start for our PGM, Deputy PGM and the Provincial Grand Secretary Designate on the 14th of March as they made their way to York for the installation of the new Provincial Grand Master for the Province of North and East Yorkshire, V.W.Bro. Paul David Braham.

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Fflint Lodge Installation

The Installation ceremony at the Flint Lodge of Mark Master Masons saw the Worshipful Master, W.Bro. James Montgomery, install the Master Elect Bro. Brian Evans in an impeccable manner. All the Officers played their part very well and with the Addresses delivered perfectly. Mong other dignitaries present was W.Bro. Philip Edwards, Past Deputy Provincial Grand Master.

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Team Visit to Welchpool RAM and Mark

On the 6th of March, the Provincial Grand Master of North Wales R.W.Bro. John Stanley Evans together with his Deputy W.Bro. Colin Anthony Lemin and his full Provincial Team were delighted to attend Welchpool Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners and Welchpool Mark Lodge to celebrate a new member and some extraordinary landmarks.

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Mr and Major to W.Bro.

In 1977, a young man by the name of Bryn Hughes joined the Army Cadets run in the area by a Major Robin Jones.

Fast forward 48 years and the now W.Bro. Bryn Hughes, Provincial Grand Senior Warden in the Mark Masonic Province of North Wales, attended Elffin Lodge of Mark Master Masons in Caernarfon where the Worshipful Master is non other than the now W.Bro Robin Jones MBE, who has finally made it into the chair.

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Y Geninen RAM Installation

Y Geninen Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners held its Installation ceremony at the Bangor Masonic Hall on the 21st of January.

Present were both the Senior and Junior Provincial Wardens, with both of them happening to be Worshipful Commanders of their respective RAM Lodges: W.Bro Bryn Hughes, ProvGSW, Commander of Y Geninen Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners itself, and W.Bro Roger Pritchard, ProvGJW, Commander of Idris Lodge or Royal Ark Mariners, attending the Installation as a guest.

W.Bro. Bryn Hughes’s time as Commander was at an end this evening, however, as it was his duty to Install his successor, W.Bro. Tim Fraser-Jones, the Provincial Grand Charity Steward.

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