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Issue 21 Supplement
THE INDUSTRY COMMITTEE
The membership may wish to note that The Court has given permission for a year's trial of an Industry Committee. The terms of reference of this committee are;
to provide a focal point for industry related matters;
to create and foster links with industry related bodies;
to assist other committees (if requested) with sponsorship, technical input and promotion of the relevant activity.
This is the brainchild of Liveryman Roger Barnard who has worked tirelessly with other Liveryman (Past Master Robin Wilson, Past Master Ivan Nellist, Miles Ashley, Trevor Koch and myself) to breathe life into this new and exciting addition to our wonderful and respected Livery Company. One of the most important functions will be to continually raise funds and we intend to call upon the membership to assist where possible by using corporate contacts that may be willing to increase their exposure to our membership as a whole by financial contribution. In this vein, our appointed chairman, Trevor Koch, will be writing to you all in due course and we hope that you will be able to support us. In addition, we will be looking at forging relationships with industry bodies as indicated in (b) above and, again, we shall be looking for help in this as well.
Our first official meeting was on Tuesday 8th November with the full embodiment of seconded members, so expect ongoing contact from now on.
Tom Barton, Court Assistant.
PAVIORS LODGE No 5646 - Consecrated 25th. February 1937
Some who read the last issue of Livery News may have been surprised to see a linking of City Livery and Freemasonry in an article by the Director, Dianne Clements, of The Library and Museum of Freemasonry (Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street, WC2 which is freely open to the public). In fact the links are perhaps even stronger than that article indicated given that there are some 25 Freemasons Lodges, City Livery Lodges, related to specific Livery Companies ranging from Cutlers Lodge as one of the oldest to CITO Lodge, (Worshipful Company of Information Technologists) as the youngest which meet in various Livery Halls as well as one general Livery one. Many other Masonic units meet in Livery Halls and Guildhall too.
Given that the Lord Mayor is effectively the figure head of the Livery in general, it may also be interesting to note that virtually every Lord Mayor, from its founding in 1901 to at least the 1980's, has been Master of The Guildhall Lodge which meets in Guildhall.
Some who read this may also be surprised to know that some foresighted Paviors Liverymen about seventy years ago set about founding a Freemasons Lodge 'principally for the benefit of members of the Worshipful Company of Paviors'. THE PAVIORS LODGE was duly Consecrated on the 25th February 1937 and at its first meeting made the then Clerk to the Company its first Initiate. The Paviors Lodge is today, together with the Golf Society, Shooting, and Wine Circle etc an associate body of the Worshipful Company of Paviors.
The Lodge has met at various venues over the years, Innholders and Armourers for example but for many years it has met in the Taurus Lodge room in Butchers Hall. It has had many distinguished members over the years including one HRH, a couple of the major benefactors of the Company, a good proportion of the Companies Masters. Indeed, no less than six of the Lodges Founders had been or became Master Pavior and in the last ten or so years alone another five Masters have been Masons too. The Lodge is currently relatively strong with 45 members and still meets four times a year on the Second Thursdays in February, October and December and Third Wednesday in May at Butchers Hall, where its members dine after, just like a Livery Dinner.
In 1999 the Lodge started a new initiative in the City when it founded the Paviors and City Livery Chapter which meets at Bakers Hall on the last Tuesdays of March, June and September and has been hugely successful. If any Pavior is interested in further information please feel free to contact me at aescriven@hotmail.com or via my address or telephone number as printed in the Livery List.
Alan Scriven
Secretary to Paviors Lodge and Chapter
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