We are one of two only founding lodges of no9 district at West Belfast Orange Hall Shankill Road Belfast. And we celebrated our centenary in 1970 thoughout are long life we've been consistently one of the largest lodges in the district.
Sadly, the lodge lost two of it's members in a IRA bomb attack in the Four Step Inn, (Shankill Road ) approximately 120 members attended the funeral. Again sadly with the lost of more members over the years including Bro William Hall (p.m) with 60 years service to the HERO'S.
We now sit with just 27 members in the books, every body likes to be in a big lodge
and we hope to have that again one day, with a recruitment drive on the way to
encourage new members. We also have a junior lodge SHANKILL ROAD HERO's
,LOL 79 with 15 young orange men of the future. Until now, with the lodge down on
members we are trying to keep the orange institution going by selling
keyrings & calendars & ballots to raise funds for the lodge.
As the ORANGE ORDER is under threat from the like of SINN FINN/ IRA and
RESIDENTS'GROUPS we all need to stand together as one.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
