Masonic Gold
Feb 15, 2023 22:56:53 GMT 9.5
Post by boreades on Feb 15, 2023 22:56:53 GMT 9.5
BBC UK has just released an entertaining series called "The Gold". Loosely based on the true story of the Brink’s-Mat warehouse robbery in 1983. In which three tons of gold was stolen (worth £26 million then and equivalent to £93 million in 2021)
How true is the TV series?
See here:
A key part (and the most relevant part here) is the masonic links between some of the key villians and bent coppers.
The most laboured point in The Gold is Boyce’s battle against a Freemason-controlled establishment – the men at the top who profit from crime but never get their hands dirty like the salt-of-the-earth gangsters.
Kenneth Noye was a Freemason and had connections in the Kent constabulary (which is why, in the series, the investigation steers well clear of Kent police involvement). Clarkson’s book details how Noye tried to win over Brink’s-Mat investigators by giving him a secret Freemason handshake. In the show, a top-ranking police officer and Freemason, Carter (played by Sean Gilder), leans on Boyce and other officers to give Noye, a fellow Mason, an easier ride.
Kenneth Noye was a Freemason and had connections in the Kent constabulary (which is why, in the series, the investigation steers well clear of Kent police involvement). Clarkson’s book details how Noye tried to win over Brink’s-Mat investigators by giving him a secret Freemason handshake. In the show, a top-ranking police officer and Freemason, Carter (played by Sean Gilder), leans on Boyce and other officers to give Noye, a fellow Mason, an easier ride.
Along with a few scenes with pseudo-Masonic ritual inside a lodge, with brethren chatting to each other while an officer of the lodge is talking. Also what seems like a "Ladies Night" when brethren and wives attend a big social event. Possibly filmed at UGLE in Queen Charlotte Street, although I'm not sure of that. Also some meetings in a pub called The Royal Arch.
How true to life for most brethren would this be?
I only have my own small provincial lodge to go by. With a few policeman for sure. I have no reason to doubt them as individuals.
But the TV seriess did remind me of the whole Jimmy Saville saga, when it emerged he was a member of at least one lodge and given a "guard of honour" by lodge members before his funeral.i.e. lodges attracting (hopefully only a very few) opportunists of the worst kind.
