I have been a Freemason in the Province of North Wales for a couple of decades and have been a member of the North Wales Association for Masonic Study (NWAMS) for quite a while. It has taken me well over a decade to discover that the Association had previously released a few small booklets over the years. It has taken even longer to try and start to track down copies of those books, and I am not even 100% sure I have managed to track them all down.

Due to the lack of knowledge about these interesting and historical books among the Brethren of North Wales, along with the North Wales Association for Masonic Study recently celebrating its 60th anniversary, not to mention the Province of North Wales being just a few years away from celebrating its 300th anniversary. I decided it would be a good idea to ask for permission to update, modernise, and republish those old books to prevent them from being lost to time, and to enable them to be available for the use of future Masonic researchers.

Thankfully I was granted permission.

In the second book in the series, W.Bro. the Reverend Chancellor J. H. Williams, and W.Bro. W. Owens, furnishes us not only with a note on the life and career of each of the twenty four Saints whom we seek to honour by association with our Lodges; they are also able in delightful and dextrous fashion to seek to point out the way in which this association is peculiarly appropriate to our Craft.

I hope this book will be a valuable resource for anyone wishing to research the Freemasonry in North Wales.

Enjoy your daily advancement in Masonic Knowledge with this look back into the history of the Saints of the Province of North Wales.

I was very lucky to have my latest book “The Rise of Freemasonry in the Province of North Wales” be listed as the Amazon number 1 Hot New Release in the category of Freemasonry.

I am humbled to receive this honour, especially as profits from this book are going to Charity.

I am even more astonished by this, since Amazon classed my previous book as the number 2 hot new release. 

I have been a Freemason in the Province of North Wales for a couple of decades and have been a member of the North Wales Association for Masonic Study (NWAMS) for quite a while. It has taken me well over a decade to discover that the Association had previously released a few small booklets over the years. It has taken even longer to try and start to track down copies of those books, and I am not even 100% sure I have managed to track them all down.

Due to the lack of knowledge about these interesting and historical books among the Brethren of North Wales, along with the North Wales Association for Masonic Study celebrating its 60th anniversary, not to mention the Province of North Wales being just a few years away from celebrating its 300th anniversary. I decided it would be a good idea to ask for permission to update, modernise, and republish those old books to prevent them from being lost to time, and to enable them to be available for the use of future Masonic researchers.

Thankfully I was granted permission.

The first book in the series contains the booklet “The Background to the Rise of Freemasonry in North Wales in the 18th and 19th Centuries” by Harold Senogles, which was first published in 1972. This booklet itself builds off the Bicentenary Souvenir of The Province of North Wales 1727 – 1927 which was produced by R. H. Gough Smallwoood for the 200th anniversary of the Province of North Wales.

I hope this book will be a valuable resource for anyone wishing to research the Freemasonry in North Wales.

Enjoy your daily advancement in Masonic Knowledge with this look back into the history of the Province of North Wales.

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.