Carnwath Lodge toasts its 200th anniversary
So 2012 is the double centenary of the Lodge, marked by a special civic reception at which office-bearers and brethren were congratulated on this masonic milestone by Provost Eileen Logan.
The event in Hamilton’s County Buildings was a time to bask in the tradition and history of Clydesdale’s longest-surviving institutions, formed when Napoleon still held sway over Europe and Queen Victoria was yet to be born.
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