Recent Comments

• "On behalf of the WM, Wardens and Officers and brethren of St Patricks Lodge 295 Irish Constitution, we would like to thank all of the members of Lodge Barns O' Clyde 1018 S.C. for their warm welcome and hospitality on Saturday 30th of May. We all thoroughly enjoyed the occasion and it was an honour to confer an exemplification of an Irish Master Masons degree within your lodge. It is safe to say that history was made that day and will abide in our memories for years to come. S&F Spike QS"
  V..W. Bro. Ian 'Spike' Varty. - Richmond North Yorkshire
• "Interested to read the history of Barns o'Clyde, and especially that of your Founding RWM, Bro. Nathaniel Nisbet who was also the driving force behind the foundation of Lodge Tullibardine 1124 S.C. (now No 227, United Grand Lodge of Queensland), and also Founding RWM for the years 1913 and 1914. We are proud of our Scottish Craft Working, although we lost a number of offices when brought under the UGLQ in 1921. Our ritual has strong Glasgow origins and follows fairly closely that of Bro. D M Goudielock, but with some notable divergences. I suspect those variations may stem from the 1018 ritual or possibly that of Glasgow 441. Of Tullibardine\'s 17 founding Office-Bearers, 12 were from Glasgow lodges with 5 from Lodge Glasgow at Glasgow 441). Of the remaining five, only one came from an \"East\" Scotland lodge (Thistle 270). Six of our founding members were from 1018 with a further 6 from St John Dalmuir 543. I would like to obtain access to your ritual, if that is possible, to compare with ours and help me to firm up on our ritual origins. I am the historian for Tullibardine. Apart from my surname which has Cumbrian origins, my grandmother was from Carmunnock and Glasgow, so I feel right at home in a SCW lodge. I would welcome email contact. Fraternally, Bro Bob Thistlethwaite PM."
  Bro. Dr Robert Thistlethwaite - Lodge Tullibardine, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• "What a wonderful site, full of current information and history that we are all proud of."
  Roddy Lawrie P.M. - Barns o' Clyde 1018