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Picture Gallery from 2024:
The Arthur Oliver Lodge 10703 held its Christmas bash at the Down Inn, Bridgnorth that entertained 80 plus guests from the Wrekin (Shropshire) and neighboring Provinces. Good food and great company was enjoyed by all and some traditional dodgy dancing accompanied a tremendous raffle with thanks to the ticket seller extraordinaire Miss Lauren Preece on the evening. A 32 inch smart TV kindly donated through Bro Stu Bristow KOM was spirited away by Bro "you've gotta be in it to win it" Damian Ward ROH - well done to all that helped on the night in organizing the evening, setting up the amazing array of raffle prizes donated by the Brethren & guests. The Absent Brethren toast was sung in full harmony as a request by the guests assembled STB.
Pictured below are scenes of ticket folding and cracker pulling - ready for a carvery dinner that was enjoyed by all
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Back to winning ways for Bro Dave in the Sir LI Aulton Lodge - photo courtesy of Bro Damian Ward ROH - be sure to pop in if you are free on a Thursday to attempt to prize the trophy away from the happy recipient........................
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Wrekin (Shropshire) Province Dinner & Dance 2024
The event took place on Saturday the 2nd of November at the Holiday Inn, Telford and a wonderful evening ensued with great company, entertainment and food. The evening was conducted by the PGL Chamberlain Bro Stuart Adams ROH in his usual unfaltering manner. The PGP Brother Mike Morris ROH and his good buffess, were accompanied on the top table by the IP PGP Bro Tom Jones ROH, with the President of the Wrekin Knights Chapter, Bro Fred Hughes KOM, the Wrekin ROH President Brother Keith Porter ROH and their guests for the evening. A highlight amongst the giving of flowers and gifts to the top table guests, was the presentation of a cheque to the PGP for his charity appeal by the Noel Jones Lodge for £1000 - pictured below by the Lodge Secretary Bro Roland Appelby ROH PGP 2015. The raffles were well supported and some brothers had a bit of luck (no names mentioned Brother Stu Bristow KOM!!!!!)
The evening finished with dodgy dancing and good humour, enjoyed by all the guests
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The Charity Race Night hosted by the OD Murphy Lodge was a fantastic success of an evening with a great local turn out and sponsorship from the Social Club and Province Lodges saw over £1000 being raised for the PGP's appeal - The Alzheimer's Society. Seen below are Bro Arthur Jones ROH and the tote team, ready for the off!
Well done to the raffle selling duo Buffess Gemma & Bro Les "i'll be right back with your change in a minute" Evans KOM.
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The Officers and Brethren of the Arthur Oliver Lodge 10703 in their new home
Bridgnorth Town Football Club, Innage Lane WV16 4HS - Joined by visiting Brethren of the Cyrils Ladd & Carline Lodge 9387 & the Grand Chamberlain of the Grand Lodge of England, Bro Arthur Frederick Hughes KOM from the Wolverhampton & District Province. Welcome to all Brethren on a Tuesday evening @ 8pm.
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It's October quiz time in the Sir L. I. Aulton !!!!
Weekly quiz events are held in the Sir Leonard I Aulton Lodge @ Trench Social Club on a Thursday night at 8pm with all visiting Brethren welcome after the PRIZED QUIZ TROPHY.....
Below - After some luck recently for joint winners Bro Mike & Bro Dave, it could not be wrestled from the hands of the Bro Jim forever but the Brothers have a plan ......... to be continued. Photos courtesy of Bro Damian Ward ROH
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September: Below are the Brethren of the Arthur Oliver Lodge from Bridgnorth on a "skirmish" to visit the Henshaw Nutter Lodge at the Trench Social Club (contact the Lodge Secretary before arranging a visit) - a fantastic night was had by the Brothers who were made most welcome - lured by the scent of pork pie and cheeky scotch eggs. Bro Ross Mushet CP & Bro Tom Jones ROH had formed the advance scouting party a few weeks previous - to see if the coast was clear........
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Bro Keith Porter ROH won this camera in a raffle Christmas 2023, pictured here with the late Bro Eric Jones ROH
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WREKIN (Shropshire) PGL Dinner & Dance 2023 - varied guest pictures from a wonderful event - The 2024 dinner dance is already sold out!..................
Bro. Arthur Frederick Hughes KOM GL Chamberlain 2024 and daughter Hollie. Bro. Wayne Appleby ROH and his Buffess Debbie
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Members and guests of the Arthur Oliver lodge at the Down Inn, November 2023
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Bro. Eric Jones ROH & Daughter carol presented a cheque for £300 to Bro. Peter Nadin ROH GP 2023 in aid of his Prostate Cancer Research Appeal
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On Tuesday 22nd August 2023, the Worthy Primo of the O D Murphy Lodge 6977 Bro Colin Onions ROH presented a cheque for £500 from the lodge to Mrs Emma Butler, of Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin Admiral Nurses - Dementia UK specialist nurses
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Two interesting Pictures from Bro. Arthur Jones:
Above sees the regalia visit of Bro Kevin Tyrer PGP ROH PGP 2006 to the Ironbridge Lodge 10197 - now sadly closed. Many of the Brethren in the photo still attend other Lodges in the Province
The above photo was taken at Bro Keith Porter ROH old pub The Queen's Arms in Dawley. It depicts the regaled members of the Wrekin Lodge 7138 that had been reformed for a few years before closure. Sad to say that the majority of these Brothers are no longer with us, which led to the closure of another fine Lodge
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The Bull's Head, Wrockwardine Wood With its green and russet tiles this must be the prettiest pub in Telford. The oval plaque between the upper windows reads: Est 1838 Bulls Head Renovated 1984. Many Lodge meeting was held here over the decades gone by.
The public house has a front of glazed brick and a tile roof. There are two storeys and two bays. In the ground floor is a public house front with pilasters, an entablature, and engraved glass windows and the upper floor contains bay windows with gables and terracotta finials.[7]
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A recent member to join the Noel Jones Lodge 10600 - Brother Andrew Parker with his lovely family.
Bro Andrew has recently been raised to the second degree and is a new Certified Primo
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Pictures from The Cyrils lad & Carline Lodge dinner at The Holiday in Telford.
By Bro. Arthur Frederick Hughes ROH
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Remembrance day in Dawley November 13th. 2022
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Wrockwardine Wood & Trench Social Club - Province HQ :-)
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Photos from yesteryear.......................
from the left Joe Dicken, Don Harris, Pat Travers, George Hill, Gilbert Harris, George Jones, Bernard Lees, Not Known, Tom Phillips, Hughie Bourne, Dennis Ball, Herbert Jones, Jack Harris, Enoch Hyde
The last meeting of the Sisters Of Courageous Glade, Stourbridge.
Wrekin(Shropshire) P G L Held its Annual Dinner at The Mercure Hotel on Saturday October 8th. 2022
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Wrekin(Shropshire) PGL Held its Annual Dinner at The Mercure Hotel on Saturday October 8th 2022
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The Late Brother Tony Lloyd was raised to The Fourth Degree at the Noel Jones Lodge 10600. Ceremony performed by Bro Steve Brady ROH PGP 2017 with a supporting cast from the Wrekin ROH Assembly 169
Members, Friends and families of The Noel Jones Lodge had a lovely time in Llandudno over the Week end September Sept 16th 17th and 18th
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A blast from the past - PGL Dinner or similar in 1978
This was the year that the Late Bro Harold Tranter ROH was our Provincial Grand Primo
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Some famous Telford residents from the past and the present
Captain Mathew Webb - famous for swimming the English Channel
Abraham Darby lll
Billy Wright with Mrs. Wright - A former Wolves & England footballing legend
Sir Len Murray Baron Murray of Epping Forest
Sir Gordon Richards
Carol Decker - Singer
Richie Woodhall - World Champion boxer from Woodside, Telford
Thomas Telford - renowned architect
William Withering Johnny Kingston Elliot Tommy Nicholls
William "Billy" Ball (1795–1852), the "Shropshire Giant",
William "Billy" Ball (1795–1852), the "Shropshire Giant", was a nineteenth-century iron puddler and "giant".
He was born in June 1795 at Horsehay, Great Dawley,[1] Shropshire where he would live for his whole life.[2] His exact date of birth is unrecorded,[i] but he was baptised on 8 July.[ii][3] He was the first son of five children born to Thomas and Elizabeth Ball of Horsehay.[3]
As an adult he was 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) tall and weighed more than forty stone. It was said that his "waistcoat was so big that three men could be buttoned into it".[4]
In September 1819, aged 24, he married Mary Bailey. They had two children, Eliza (1823–1824) and Thomas (1824–1839). In 1824, both his wife and daughter died. Thomas also died young, at fifteen.[4] Next year, 1825, he married Margaret Wood (1790-c.1850), who bore him no children.[3]
He was known locally as a cheerful man with a very pleasing disposition.[3]
From the age of eight he was employed in the Coalbrookdale Company's Horsehay Ironworks, where he continued for forty years (to 1843). He worked mostly as a puddler and later as a shingler.[iii]
Puddling is a skilled and extremely strenuous job, requiring great physical strength. 'Big Billy Ball' was immensely strong, on one occasion reputedly lifting a piece of iron weighing nearly 9 long hundredweight (460 kg; 1,000 lb) to place under the forge hammer. In the 1841 census he gave his occupation as a forgeman.
In 1843 he was accidentally blinded in one eye when it was struck by a piece of molten iron. After this he always wore a pair of glass goggles. He also ceased working in the ironworks.[4]
After he left the ironworks he exhibited himself around county fairs as "The Largest Man in Britain", appearing under the pseudonym 'John Bull'.
1850 saw the birth of Alfred Darby II, a descendant of the Darby family, which was to be celebrated by a procession. He was chosen to lead this procession on horseback, along with 'Little Bennie Poole', the smallest man working at the Coalbrookdale Company, riding a pony.[3] Because of his size, he had to be hoisted onto his horse with a block and tackle, with a cry of, "Dunno yo drop me!". Afterwards the horse was so injured that it had to be destroyed.[3]
In the 1851 census of 30 April, he is listed but without specifying an occupation.[3]
He was invited, as both a guest and a celebrity exhibit, to The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. As no passenger seat on the train to London was big enough for him, he travelled in the guard's van. This was to be his last major public appearance.[4]
Some Birmingham businessmen were said to have teased him about his size: they asked him how much material would be needed and what the cost would be to make him a suit, but after he quipped that if they would take him to a tailor, have him measured and pay for a suit, he would give them the information they wanted, they didn't bother him anymore.[3]
He did not enjoy his experience of London and was the target of thieves. He left wishing never to return and had no wish to travel from Horsehay again.[citation needed]
He died the year after his appearance at The Great Exhibition, in June 1852, aged 57.[5]
On his death, he had to be taken from his home in Sandy Bank Row, Horsehay by removing a window and the surrounding brickwork. It took ten[iv] strong men to carry the coffin, with straps and poles. It was said to be so large that "ten lads were able to lie in it". Although the funeral at St Luke's Church in Doseley was attended by a large crowd, he was buried in an unmarked grave
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