Bolton

Contact Us:

By phone: Christine (Lodge Secretary)  07717 383139 or 01257 401152

By email: Chris (Secretary)      Lchrislowe@yahoo.co.uk

Wayne (President)  gawayne63@yahoo.co.uk

Please note our new venue -
Unity Church, The Gatehouse, 118 Chorley New Road, Bolton, BL1 4DH

Only street parking I’m afraid at the moment but bus no 575 from Bolton bus Station to Chorley New Road will get you there for those not driving. Ask for the stop just after Queen’s Park on Chorley Road.

The Unity Centre is opposite Bolton School on the corner of Beverley Road and Chorley New Road.

All welcome. £3 minimum donation.
Refreshments provided.

 

Apologies for the misprints in the printed edition of the programme for this year.

We definitely have a meeting this Sunday June 14th at Bolton and Hugh Agnew from Merseyside will be talking about “WE ARE GODS IN THE MAKING”

Bolton Lodge dates Summer 2026

Meetings are on Sundays on the following dates at 2.30pm

You are warmly invited to our next Bolton Lodge public meeting

 

12th July

Rudolf Steiner: Philosopher, Social Reformer and Esotericist

Tony McNeile

 

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was an Austrian philosopher, esotericist, and social reformer who founded Anthroposophy as a "spiritual science".  He believed that humanity's spiritual and physical worlds are deeply interconnected.  His philosophy, heavily influenced by German idealist philosophy, theosophy and early mystical texts, posits that individuals can develop higher faculties of perception to understand the spiritual universe

 

Rev Tony McNeile has lived amongst the wonders of the world.   He was born in Dover, and after many different homes ended up in Bolton. 

His working life took him to Nigeria with the Merchant Navy and Germany with the army. 

He worked for Shell Chemicals in Manchester before moving to the Middle East. 

 

In 1990 he trained for the ministry and moved to Bolton to work in a town centre Unitarian church.

It was there he came across Theosophy and became a member. There are common values between Theosophy and Unitarianism. Seeing the world opens the inner eye to the mystery of life and the mystical force that holds it together.  He is treasurer of the Bolton Lodge and a member of the National Council, and has recently become a trustee.
His passions are life and golf.     

 

All Welcome.  Refreshments provided.
Cost £5 Non members £4 Members

This will be our last meeting before the summer break.
We meet again in September and I will email the dates out when the programme is completed.

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Our meetings begin at 2.30 and end between 4.30 pm to 5 pm

Hard copies of the programme will be available to collect at the meetings.

 

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Study groups led by President Wayne Gatfield 

First Sundays of the month at 2.30pm

 

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Our room costs have doubled
so any donations above the admission costs gratefully received.

 

We are holding our meetings at our usual venue…
Unity Church,
The Gatehouse
118 Chorley New Road
Bolton
BL1 4DH

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“To serve humanity by cultivating an ever-deepening understanding and realization of the Ageless Wisdom, spiritual Self-transformation, and the Unity of all Life.”

On this website you will find some of the basic ideas about theosophy. However, the Theosophical Society does not ask its members to adhere to any of these ideas in particular. Members are only expected to be in agreement with the Three Objects of our organization:

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New Venue:

Unity Church
The Gatehouse
118 Chorley New Road
BOLTON
BL1 4DH

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