Grand Master had acceded to the
petition of the founders and that the Mimosa Lodge of Blackpool was to numbered
6047 in the register of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandMimosa Lodge No 6047
Worshipful Master W.Bro. B.T. Leech, P.Pr.A.G.D.C.
Senior Warden Bro. G.P. O'Hagan
Junior Warden Bro. A.R. Crook
Secretary W. Bro. T. Burton, P.Pr.S.G.D.
Tel : 01253 720456
On Tuesday 4th April 1944, several members of Rectitude Lodge No 4122 met at the Masonic Hall, Adelaide Street, to consider the formation of a new Lodge. They unanimously selected W.Bro. W. Holt, P.Pr.A.G.D.C. to be the first Master and Bro. H. Waddington to be the Secretary. At a subsequent meeting the subscriptions were set at three guineas. The first name selected was Doric but on discovering that there was already a Doric Lodge in the Province, the founders adopted the name "The Mimosa Lodge of Blackpool".
Ten months later, on 12th February 1945, the
brethren were informed that the Most Worshipful
Grand Master had acceded to the
petition of the founders and that the Mimosa Lodge of Blackpool was to numbered
6047 in the register of the United Grand Lodge of England
The consecration took place at Adelaide Street on Friday 13th April 1945. The Consecrating Officer was the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master, Brother Arthur Foster, and the Installation was conducted by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master, Brother W. W. S. Hannay.
All twenty members were members of Rectitude Lodge No 4122. Some twenty five years earlier, five of them (W.Bros. S. G.Hugh, T. Pye, W. Holt, F. Burnett and W. Hirst) had, as members of Clifton Lodge No 703, been founders of Rectitude Lodge.
During its fifty four years, two members of the Lodge have received appointments in the United Grand Lodge of England. W.Bro, Reg Ormerod, became an Assistant Provincial Grand Master in the Province of Cheshire and he was appointed P.S.G.D., in Grand Lodge. W.Bro. Herbert P. Elliot was appointed Past Grand Standard Bearer in 1961 and was promoted P.A.G.D.C. in 1969, although by that time he had resigned from Mimosa Lodge and resumed his career in his mother Lodge, Rectitude.
The Lodge is indebted to W.Bro. W. A. Snell who donated the Lodge banner to the Lodge in 1991, and it now hangs, in the main Lodge Room, each one representing a Lodge that meets at the Masonic Hall, Adelaide Street.
In November 1974 the Worshipful Master congratulated the last remaining founder, W.Bro. Albert Ormerod and W.Bro. Arthur Addis, who had become a joining member of the Lodge in 1950, on having completed fifty years in Masonry.
Ten years later the Lodge was saddened by the news that W.Bro. Albert Ormerod had passed away at the age of 95.
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