Brownrigg Chapter No 1424 on the Move

It was over 107 years ago in 1904, in the reign of Kind Edward VII and just three years after the death of Queen Victoria, that Brownrigg Chapter No 1424 was Consecrated at the Conway Memorial Hall in Old Brompton, Chatham, and proceeded to hold its Convocations nearby at the Kings Arms Hotel in Westcourt Street. In 1910 the Chapter moved to Brownrigg Lodge’s own new Masonic Hall in Wood Street where with some relocation during the First World War they stayed for the next 53 years, moving to the Masonic Hall, Ivy Street, Rainham in January 1974 when the Wood Street Hall closed.

37 years later, upon the closure of the Ivy Street Centre in 2011, Brownrigg Chapter has had to change lodgings again, this time to the Gillingham Masonic Centre in Franklin Road. They are no strangers to the Franklin, the Chapter having held its Installation Convocations there for several years during the 1920s, and their first permanent meeting there was the June 2011 Installation Convocation. With this latest relocation, and to meet the requirements of housing the Chapter’s equipment, a capacious cupboard has been generously sponsored by EComp Jim Gillett ProvGSwdB; custom built to the Chapter’s requirements by Bro Jason Whiting of the Centre.

Brownrigg Chapter No 1424 now looks forward to many happy years at its new Gillingham home.

21 September 2011

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