Peter K, if you care to read my last post on this thread again, you will find the address for the web site of The Grand Lodge of England, which contains pretty much all the info you are looking for, thats why I put it there!
Freemasonry, like folk music, is somthing that I throughly enjoy but I don't think I drew any parallels between them, or insinuated any link between the two. I am just an odinary person, I have no special privaleges, and have earned no special privalages or favours through freemasonry.

Once again here is the address of the GLE,   
      
www.grandlodge-england.org

As for finding nothing in the papers, up until the first world war, masonic meetings were regulary reported on, it was only after that time that the craft became more inward looking, and certainly now we are moving away from that and are becoming more open again, you will find many lodges are now having open days to show the public the inside of masonic halls, and let them see what we do.

Wassail! Chris