By 1717 the Masonic lodges were already clubs having no connection to stone-masonry. Four London lodges met at the Goose and Gridiron pub in St Paul's Churchyard and formed the first Grand Lodge, initially just to have one dinner a year.
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Grand Lodge of England
Corporation of the City of London Near this site the Grand Lodge of English ...
Lions Clubs International were begun on 7 June 1917 in America by a Chicago b...
Founded by members of the Blackheath Society. Its original objective was to r...
