Old Christmas Circulars

The Old Christmas Ciculars

For many year it had been usualy to send out a paper circular by post. This practice began to die away and was replaced by electronic circulars. The paper circulars below where prepared by W. Bro. Robert H Mayne and often featured a Chrismas theme.

December 2010

A photograph of Freemasons Hall, Arthur Square, Belfast

Taken on a Wet Winter night the Glandore Lodge crest has been added to the wet pavement.

Glandore Lodge has met in this hall since 2007.

December 2011

Simply a photograph of a Masonic decoration on a Christmas tree.

Why Seasons Greetings and not Merry Christmas? When first creating what would become known as the Christmas Circular, the term Christmas was not used on the circular because we had Jewish members in the Lodge, although in reality, they would not have been offended.

December 2012

The circular featured the Poinsettia, commonly used for decorative purposes at Christmas.

The man who gave the plant the name by which we commonly know was Joel Roberts Poinsett, US physician, diplomat and botanis.

December 2007

Inspired by the John Luke mural.

This section was not a photograph of the mural cropped to fit the circular as some brethren asummed, but a redrawing on the same theme of a small section.

The sky was from a photograh, the temple wals created using Ray Tracing and the whole composition was merged and finnished in Photoshop.