Lodge of Harmony, No. 220, Liverpool

Annual returns giving names, professions and residence of members of Lodge of Harmony [Antients'], with general correspondence relating to the administration of the Lodge. Includes correspondence concerning the establishment of the Lodge, petitions for new warrants and letters concerning charges brought against the Lodge.

Lodge of Harmony, No. 220 [SN 1310] was established in 1796 and named in 1819. It received a warrant from the Antients' Grand Lodge on 27 December 1796 and met at the Brown Cow, Lord Street, Liverpool. The Lodge met in numerous inns and taverns across Liverpool until 1852 when it left Liverpool for the Woolton Hotel, Much Woolton, Lancashire. In 1857 the Lodge left Much Woolton and moved to the Wellington Hotel, Wellington Street in Garston, Lancashire. The Lodge moved to the Masonic Hall, 9 Island Road South, Garston, Liverpool in 1926, where it continues to meet. The Antients' Grand Lodge formed a union with the Moderns' Grand Lodge to form the United Grand Lodge of England in 1813, when the Lodge was renumbered as No. 385. The Lodge was renumbered again in 1832 when it took the number No. 267. It was renumbered again in 1863 when it took the number No. 220, its present number on the roll of Lodges. By 1817 the Lodge was reduced to one member and fell dormant until 1822, when it was re-opened due to an increase in membership.