History of Saltley College Lodge
At the consecration meeting all wore full evening dress. (Tails, white waistcoat, white bow, staiched collar and shirt). This was the dress worn at all our Installation meetings until 1939. We wore ordinary evening suits at the other meetings. War conditions made us scrap this fashion, and in our lodge we have never gone back to our old ways.
In the by-laws of the new lodge we find: Annual Sub. 3 guineas. This for
four meetings, and it included a very good meal with wine at table.
Visiting Fee. 12/6 - 15/- at Installations. The cost at the Consecration,
for a five course meal and drinks had been one guinea.
The new lodge was to meet at the Cannon Street Hotel, on the first Saturdays
in February and Amp'11, and the second Saturdays in October (Instn. ) and
December. Each meeting was a very busy one. In my opinion the one that was
unique, was the one held on 8th October, 1932. At this meeting the first
Master, Chas. Pointer installed his succesor, Bob Williams. At the same
meeting
W.E. Smith and J.A. Alderson were Initiated Bros. Cartwright and Andrews
were Passed
and
Bro. Rev. Jones and Morgan were Raised.
They were all in time for the meal at 7.00 p.m.
The Founders had agreed that Bro. Edgar Humphreys should be the third W.M., and he was duly installed on 14th October, 1933. While he was 'in the chair1, W. Bro. John Gibson was lodge sec. At the end of his year as Master, Edgar again became Sec., and continued in that office, until his death in 1956.
The new lodge became a member of the UNION OF COLLEGE LODGES- (Created in 1914 as the Federation of
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