Timeline

• 13 April 1953

  Consecration

  On this night, The Vigilantes Lodge No. 7264 held a Consecration Ceremony in the Floral Restaurant, at The Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes.
  The Ceremony was conducted by the Right Honourable The Lord Heneage, the Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire.
  Twenty-nine of the Thirty-Four Founding Members were in attendance, along with well over one hundred visitors.
  Immediately after Consecration, W.Bro Rudkin was installed as the first Worshipful Master of the Vigilantes Lodge.
  Read more about Our Founders

• September 1954

  The Lodge gets it's Banner

  The Banner of the Lodge was presented by W.Bro Garnet, and dedicated by W.Bro the Rev. Cannon Hill.

• January 1957

  The Lodge gets it's Bible

  The Bible, suitably embossed with the Vigilantes' crest was presented by W.Bro Gordon Lock.

• May 1957

  The Roll of Masters

  W.Bro Carl Ross presented the Roll of Masters board which now hangs in the ante room of the Lodge.

• 1958

  50 Years in Masonry!

  A portrait in oils of W.Bro Rowston, was presented to him to celebrate his fifty years in Masonry.

• 1959

  A Change of Dress

  Originally, the apron in the Third Degree was presented to the candiate by the Worshipful Master, but in 1959 this was delegated to teh Senior Warden.
  It was also decided that wearing Dinner Jackets be reserved for the Installation meeting only.

• 1978

  25th Anniversary

  Vigilantes Lodge celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, W.Bro John Overton was in the Master's chair.
  The ladies led by our Worshipful Master's wife, Angela, together with W.Bro John Holmes' wife, Frances, provided a splendid buffet.

• Winter 1981

  Gifts for the Lodge

  The embroidered VOSL Degree Markers, which had been presented by W.Bros Holmes, Overton and Hawken were dedicated by the Provincial Grand Chaplain in October.
  In November, a set of metal Third Degree tools which had been made by Bro. Geoff Body (the Senior Engineering Technician at the Grimsby College of Technology, and member of the St. James Lodge) were used in the Lodge for the first time.

• March 1983

  Pearl Anniversary

  Our Pearl Anniversary was celebrated by a party held at the Cleethorpes Masonic Hall on the 9th March.
  In 2003, we celebrated our 50th Anniversary in a similar manner.

• 1986

  A Lecture Master's Jewel

  A Lecture Master's Jewel, designed by W.Bro Ian Perry and made by W.Bro Peter Vaughan of the St. Peter Lodge was worn for the first time in open Lodge.

• 1997

  Gloves Ritual; the beginning of an era

  W.Bro Havard presented a pair of white gloves to the Candidate on his Initiation using a piece of ritual he had composed himself.
  This was the start of the Gloves Ceremony ritual performed only in the Vigilantes Lodge, and is still performed to this day.
  Read more about the Gloves ritual

• 1999

  A Big Birthday

  W.Bro John Holmes celebrated is sixty years in Masonry and his ninetieth Birthday at an event organised by his wife at Cleethorpes Masonic Hall.

• 2001

  50 Years

  W.Bro H T Chamberlain celebrated fifty years in Freemasonry.

• 2003

  50th Anniversary

  Vigilantes Lodge celebrated this historic event by reliving the celebrations from 1983!

• March 2013

  60th Anniversary

  For the Vigilantes Lodge's 60th Anniversary, W.Bro H T Chamberlain compiled and delivered a piece on the history of the Lodge.
  That same piece is the information represented here!

• 2023

  70th Anniversary

  This year, we're looking forward to celebrating our 70th Anniversary!
  If you'd like to join us for this special evening Book to Visit