About the Circle - City of Liverpool Circle No 74

City of Liverpool, 74 Circle

The City of Liverpool Circle was inaugurated on 17th October 1923. In March 1997 we held our 800th meeting in the magnificent surroundings of the Liverpool Town Hall, and in October 1998 we celebrated our 75th anniversary. (See Recent Events). Our 900th was held in September 2005.

The Circle meets on the second Thursday of every month except August, and we hold an annual joint meeting in January with Liverpool 4 Circle.

The Circle Brothers are frequent visitors to other Circles in Province and elsewhere, and our dinner Secretary ( and a past President of at least 3 Circles), Brother Stephen Wright, is well known in Province 1 and 4 for his visiting. Indeed Province presented him with a small trophy in recognition of his visiting record ! Our current President, Brother Wilf Grogan is a true Liverpudlian & enjoys visiting.

Meetings : Second Thursday of every month, at the luxurious West Lancashire Golf Club, Hall Road West, Blundellsands, Liverpool. L23 8SZ. (Hall Road station on the main Liverpool to Southport railway). Registers open at 7pm for the meeting at 7.30pm. The telephone number of the Club is 0151 924 1076, but this is for emergencies only. To book in for a meeting, please telephone the Dinner Secretary, Stephen Wright, no later than the Monday prior to the meeting date. You can contact him on : Tel : 0151 678 5336. or the President, Paul Breen by e-mail on :catena74@blueyonder.co.uk .
Dinner follows the meeting. This is usually a full 3 course meal plus coffee & mints. It is usually priced at the excellent value of between £13 & £16 per head (depending upon the chosen menu), including a £1 raffle for a bottle of whisky, as long as the Treasurer remembers to bring it with him ! The raffle is for the current President's Charity. Lounge suites are standard, unless it is a special function. There is a very extensive wine list, from the affordable to the very expensive !
Joint Meetings : We usually hold at least one of these each year. In January we share a joint meeting with Liverpool 4, and then a Ladies night as below. Both are always well attended, and excellent social events.
Ladies Night : Like most Circles, we were finding it financially difficult to hold an independant Ladies Night, so we have joined forces with Liverpool 4 and South Liverpool 164 to hold a joint Ladies Night, which is now a regular event in the Provincial calendar, with most years seeing over 250 Brothers and their Ladies enjoyed a most successful evening at the end of April, in the splendour of the grand ballroom of the Britannia Adelphi Hotel. This is always a black tie event, and we usually have both a disco & a live band. Our Circle widows are always invited to this occasion. See our calendar of events for this years date.
Post Circle Ladies : We also invite the Ladies to dine with us post-Circle on at least three occasions each year, but always for the December meeting so as to make a Christmas party event.
In Memorium : Every November, Province 4 holds an Annual Mass for the deceased members of the Circles in Province. In 2009 it was held at SFX in Liverpool on November 1st.

Below we list the Brothers of the Circle who have died. We also include those deceased Brothers of Waterloo Circle. That Circle closed in late 1998, and our present membership includes a number from that Circle.

In Memoriam Please Remember in your prayers
*Those of The City of Liverpool Circle*
Arthur Arnold Jim Blackledge John J. Bligh Harry Briscoe Gerry Byrne Joe Byrne Bim Chamberlain Vincent Collins Gerald Dowling Arthur Dyson Francis R. Ferns John Gaffney Oswald W. Gillow Arthur Griffiths Pat Healy J. Anthony Hurst Leo Hyams Peter Keating Alf Lamble Bill Lennon Henry McArdle William McCaffrey Bernard McGovern Patrick P. McNally Gerard J. Mullaney John H. Neville Charles O'Grady Patrick Peters Ted Roberts George Scrini David Shaw Arthur J. Smyth KHS Henry A. Waite John White Tom Wolfenden	Aloysius Barry Bill Bligh Philip Breen Bob Burns Laurence Bussy Michael J. Byrne Thomas J. Coakley William F. Conway Nigel Drane Ken Duggan Kevin Edwards Pat Fahey Francis M. Ferns F.S.Finn Mike Gallagher Charles Godfrey John Hayes Ted Hosey J.G. Hurst Bernard Jordon Joseph Kennan Frank Linford Joseph McArdle John McCann Chris A. McNally Thomas McNamara Ernest M. Murphy Joseph T. Parkinson Roy Quinn Bill Reid Michael J. Ryan Sydney Smith John A. Taggart Peter Wallace Leo Wright

In Memoriam Please Remember in your prayers
*Those of The Waterloo Circle*
Gerald Alston J.W.Baker, KCHS W.F.Blanchard Claud Bradley David Brookes Chris Cain John Carden Pierce Clark Barney Coyne Geo Cunningham A.T.Davies J.F.Dedicoat Walter T.Emery John Forshaw J.M.Gallagher Edward J. Gargan Vincent J. Glover Bart Harrington Richard T. Hart Edward Horrigan James Kilburn Thomas J. Ledgett Luke Lyons Thomas Mawdsley Hugh McInnes Ted McManus Mort McSweeney John Moran Isaac J. Monaghan Stephen O'Connell John J. Park W.F.Powell-Yates William Robinson George Sanders John Shaw Don Tait Joseph Thompson Denis W. Tinkler Peter J. Traynor John W. Vittles John Walsh Stan West William Williams	Arthur Baker Maurice Beesley John P. Bolger Richard A. Bresnan George Brown Joseph Callaghan Peter Carroll Ray Cookson John Crowe Roy Daniel William H.Davies Frank Edwards William Foley John Gahan Thomas Garrett V.F. Glover Tom Grierson William Harrison Edward F. Hennessey Cecil Howard Ted Lawler, KSG T. A. Loverridge Dermot Madden Philip McGrath Harry McManus Donald McSweeney George Mercer Charles Monaghan Joe Neep Laurence Oley G.S.Pinnington Frank Reilly John Roche Bill Segrave William Styles Charles S. Taylor Thomas O.Thompson Joseph Arthur Torpey Charles Tritton Frank Wade Gerard Waring Thomas Whyte Jack Wilson