The Lodge was Consecrated and Erected at a meeting held in Bridgend School on the 6th November 1920, at 4.00pm. The ceremony was carried out by Brother Henry Robinson R.W.P.G.M. of Linlithgowshire.
The first applicants were as follows;
- John Morris – Blacksmith – Blackness
- Andrew Potter Crombie – Blacksmith – Blackness
- John D S Neilson – Miner – Philpstoun
- David Gault – Clerk – Philpstoun
- Allan Old (Jnr) – * Miner – Kingscavil
- Thomas Kilpatrick (Jnr) – ** Miner – Philpstoun
Andrew P Crombie, in 1930, became the first intiate to be a Right Worshipful Master of Lodge Hopetoun St John No 1232.
* Application subsequently withdrawn
** Failed to attend for initiation