Welcome to the Bootle Group Web site.This friendly and successful Group has its headquarters at the Masonic Hall, Sefton Road, Litherland. It is well situated for transport and has its own secure car-park.
Bootle Group Chairman - Peter Levick
The former hall in Balliol Road was the subject of a compulsory purchase order in 2004 and as a result the Group purchased premises in Sefton Road, Litherland, which is located about two miles north of Balliol Road
Extensive conversion and re-construction work took place to convert the former wine bar into a Masonic Hall. The new hall has two lodge rooms. One seats approximately 110 and the other approximately 55. There are two anti rooms adjacent to the lodge rooms together with ladies and gents toilets with separate facilities for the disabled. There is also a cosy bar next to the dining rooms
There is a central kitchen which will serve both dining rooms, one seats approximately 85 and the other approximately 40. There is a removable sound resistant screen which divides the two rooms and when opened up the one room seats approximately 115 people
All the facilities are at ground level with the two rooms at first floor level for use as offices/committee rooms.
The Hall employs local staff for catering, cleaning and car-park security. Many of the lodges have local names such as Bootle, Litherland, Crosby, Linacre and Aintree. The oldest lodge is Fermor Hesketh which was formed in 1871. Many members of the lodges have given loyal service in the local community and in work for local charities.
The Group is administered by a Chairman and his Officers, in addition to a Hall Committee on which all lodges and chapters have representation. This is a very active Hall Management Committee.
Freemasonry is intended to be fun and the Group has a very strong social scene. The ladies have their own Club and the related Widows’ Fellowship. They have regular meetings with a dinner and a guest speaker as well as days out to places of interest. Additionally, Freemasons interested in bowls, fishing, golf and clay pigeon shooting are well catered for. To help with Hall refurbishment and development, FROTH (the Friends of the Hall Committee) is very active and the regular Sunday lunches and the Annual Ball are enjoyed by all who attend.
The family of the Bootle Group of lodges is a caring Group with members and their ladies helping to generate funds to assist local Scouts, Sea Cadets, Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs, Children’s Holiday Fund, Women and Children’s Aid and Hospices both for children and adults. It also actively supports the Provincial charities of the Province of West Lancashire and the national and international charitable work undertaken by the Grand Lodge of England.