The year is 1905.

Edward VII is King of England and Emperor of India having suc­ceeded Queen Victoria as sovereign just three years earlier, the Edwardian era is in full swing. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is Prime Minister of a Liberal government, Asquith and Lloyd George are yet to succeed him. World War War I is nine years into the future and women will not get the unqualified right to vote for another twenty-three years. The nation is about to celebrate the Centenary of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar and the Wright brothers have just taken to the air. The Titanic has not been conceived.

This was the environment into which The Adams Lodge was born.

"Gentlemen" did not really work and "Trade" was frowned upon as being only for the lower/middle classes. Fortunately for us there were men who viewed the world differently and saw Freemasonry as an opportunity to put back into society some of the benefits that they had derived from it.

One such man was Frank Adams PPGD (Middlesex), already a very active mason as a member of four lodges and Past Master of three as well as being a member of two Royal Arch Chapters.