(by Kathy Bailes, Lovetts of Ramsgate, December 20, 2023)
A Ramsgate Freemason has bequeathed £114,000 to the town’s Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School.
When the Old Ruymian Lodge of the East Kent Freemasons informed the school they had £114,000 to donate, the staff and students were delighted. The incredible sum had been left by the late Norman Poole, a former member of the Old Ruymian Lodge who was keen to support the education of future generations.
A delegation of 12 students from Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School, along with the head of the sixth form Craig Lowis and the school’s business manager Chris Freeman, arrived at the Masonic centre in St Lukes Avenue, Ramsgate, on December 15 to receive the cheque from the Master of the Lodge…
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