Glasgow Masonic Hall Company

This is an excerpt from a London (Masonic) paper in 1901. The PGM mentioned above was Bro. John Graham of Broadstone (near Stranraer) in 1889, also a member of the Princes Lodge No.607 at Ibrox. Bro. Graham immediately took up the question of a meeting place for Provincial Grand Lodge. Eventually he set up the Glasgow Masonic Hall Co. Ltd. and asked the Lodges and members to take up shares. He personally purchased the two townhouses and gardens which formed the site of what was to become 100 West Regent Street. Many of the Lodges and brethren took up shares although a substantial number was left with the Provincial Grand Master. Dividends were paid regularly up to the 1914 war and even into the 1920s. The building has two carvings meant to be St John The Baptist, dressed in a sheep’s coat holding a lamb and The Evangelist dressed in a toga, carrying a chalice and is surrounded by masonic symbols like dividers and a mason's gravel.

The Halls were opened in 1896 and Provincial Grand Lodge met there regularly until 1980.