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Annual Provincial Grand Assembly of Royal Ark Mariners
Saturday 30th January 2010

Sat. 30th January - Thackeray RAM Lodge No 730 will
present the Travelling Ark to the Provincial Grand Master at
the Provincial Royal Ark Mariner Assembly to be held at the
Nailsea Masonic Hall.

Somerset Commanders out on the Tiverton Canal

It has become a tradition
of the Somerset
Commanders
Lodge No 1656
to have an
annual day
out. This takes
place during
the summer, (if
we have one!)
Wives and partners
are of course very
welcome.
The responsibility for
organising the day
falls to the Worshipful
Commander. This
year’s commander,
John Lendon decided that
the trip would have a nautical
flavour and so chose a morning
cruise along the Tiverton Canal.
Twenty four Lodge members
and partners boarded the horse-
drawn barge, the Tivertonian,
at Tiverton Wharf and were
Travelling Ark Progamme taken out into the Devon
countryside. The barge travels for one hour to East Manley,
17th March - Royal Cumberland Lodge to Monument Lodge there it turns around and moors up allowing for the opportunity
20th April - Monument Lodge to Portcullis Lodge to take a short walk to see the one and only Aqueduct on the
24th May - Portcullis to Somerset Installed Mark Masters Lodge Grand Western Canal. Alternatively one could stay and talk to
21st June - Somerset Installed Mark Masters Lodge to Carnarvon the horse as he rests awhile under the shade of a tree! During
27th September - Carnarvon Lodge to George Norman Lodge the journey we heard some tales and history of the canal,
6th October - George Norman Lodge to Quantock Lodge and enjoyed a minute’s silence thus experiencing the true
26th October - Quantock Lodge to Mendip Lodge peace and tranquillity of travelling by Horse-Drawn Barge.
22nd November - Mendip Lodge to Royal Sussex Lodge On returning to Tiverton Wharf everyone made their way to the
24th November - Royal Sussex Lodge to Hallam Lodge Fisherman’s Cot at Bickleigh. This is a lovely old pub by the river
Exe; there we all enjoyed a very pleasant lunch.
One of the pictures shows that number one Masonic
pin-up without which no outing would be complete!

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