I have spent the last few years traveling around the Province of North Wales (and Cheshire) giving various talks on the Widows Sons Masonic Bikers Association. I have even had articles on the subject published in two editions of the Square Masonic Magazine.
I am also known on Social Media as a Widows Son, and a founder of the North Wales Chapter, which is how I got pulled into a conversation that was happening on Twitter where the merits of the Widows Sons Masonic Bikers/Riders Association was called into question. The main issue was how can leather clad bikers be a good advertisement for Freemasonry, unfortunately the person who was the main opponent know of no members he could talk to and find out more.
I therefore decided to convert one of the talks I have given in Masonic Lodges across the UK into a small book to hopefully answer some questions.
And today that book “Widows Sons: Outlaw Bikers or Masonic Ambassadors” was published.
New Book Launch:
Widows Sons: Outlaw Bikers or Masonic Ambassadors.
We are fully recognised, and approved by the United Grand Lodge of England, even featuring prominently on the main page of their website. We have had articles about us in multiple issues of “The Square Magazine”, as well as being often mentioned in “Freemasonry Today”, and were the main part of the third episode of Sky’s five-part documentary series “Inside the Freemasons”.
Even so, until recently, not many brethren had heard of us, or knew what it is we do, they may have just seen us an Outlaw biker gang. To be fair we do have some scary looking members.
To help spread word about us, especially in the Province of North Wales, I wrote a talk originally called “Widows Sons – Brotherhood Squared” which I would give at Lodge meetings as a brief introduction of where we came from, who we are, and what we do.
So, who are the Widows Sons?
Are we just a group of patch wearing “Outlaw Bikers”, or if not, how can we claim to be ambassadors for freemasonry if bikers cause so much fear and concern everywhere they go?