All Enquiries should be addressed to

The Secretary,

St Margaret's Lodge

Falmouth House

Hexham Road

Throckley

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE15 9DX

CONSECRATED ON THE 26^TH OCTOBER 1939, IN THE ‘ORD ARMS’ SCOTSWOOD

When ‘The St.Margaret's Lodge’ was formed, in 1938, it met in the ‘ORD ARMS’ Scotswood.  The lodge was named after St Margaret's church, in Scotswood.  Lodge folklore has it than a number of the founding members attended services there.  St.Margaret's church is named after St Margaret of Antioch, known in the east as St.Marina.  Antioch is in Turkey.  She was one the more popular saints of the middle ages, and is the patron saint of childbirth, or pregnant women.  She is venerated on the 20^th July.  Various books give slightly different accounts of her rise to beatification; but the main thread is that she was a Christian, who refused to a marry a pagan prince, and was imprisoned for it.  Among her trials, she was devoured in her cell by a dragon, but the cross she was holding while praying, punctured the dragon and she emerged unhurt.  Among old writings, dragons are used to depict evil, and the slaying of a dragon was overcoming evil.  Old drawings usually depict St Margaret emerging from, or trampling the dragon, while holding the cross, sometimes holding the dragon on a cord.  The former case is depicted on the lodge banner.