Freemasons: Golden West Lodge No. 6689
P.O. Box 175
Carletonville
District Carletonville
Consecrated: 1948
Meetings: 1st Tuesday (ex Jan, Apr) 2nd Sat Aug
Meeting place:Garnett/Jade Strs., Carltonville
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The request for the lodge came mainly from the
developing mining centre of Carletonville but it was
to take over ten years for the Golden West Lodge to
find a permanent home there. During those years it
met in the King Edward masonic hall in Potchefstroom,
where it was consecrated. It was subsequently moved
to Fochville, back to Potchefstroom, then to
Randfontein and finally to Carletonville, where it
held its meetings at the Methodist Church Hall while
premises were sought and developed through a trust
formed by five lodges of three constitutions.
Golden West had its first meeting in the new
masonic hall in 1958. The Lodge has made steady
progress and has been joined at Carletonville by the
J H Vivian Lodge, which it sponsored in 1955. The
past Masters include one Grand officer, Fred Brear,
who has rendered fine service to English Freemasonry
in the Transvaal, including providing the District
with its ceremonial sword.
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