History Of The Airedale Lodge, No. 387,

twenty-one years after his first installation , Bro . Wainman Holmes was again p laced in the chair as W . Master , and Bro . Thomas Holmes was initiated . The returns to 31 st December , 1847 , were made February 28 th , 1848 , fifteen members being returned , inclusive of two initiates , during 1847 . On the 28 th October , 1848 , the following brethren attended our Lodge from the Royal YorkshireNo . 332 Keihley : —Bros John GordonThomas

, , g , Brown , Thomas Lund , Joseph Buckley , John Ellison , James Emmett , Thomas Midgley , Abraham Shackleton , James Cawood , Daniel Town , John Hagar , William Simpson Servant , George Pool , George Falshaw . And on the 10 th January , 1849 , Bro . Nicholas Walker , senior , was again elected W . M . On this occasion six brethren volunteered to provide the supper for the six following meetings .

Bye-laws had previously been found necessary , and many attempts made to frame them ; but in this year ( Thomas Holmes , Secretary , ) strenuous efforts seem to have been made to have them compiled . On July 4 th , 1849 , they are thus referred to : —

The Lodge , after a short lecture , was duly closed after the negligence attending the delay of writing ont our Bye-Laws was alluded to , and when each member was to be strictly requested to attend at the next meeting , that the business may be accomplished . Again , on the 5 th September , 1849 ( the next meeting ) -. " The completion of our Bye-Laws is a matter of business which stands over until next meeting , when it is hoped we shall be able to finish their compilation ; " and on the

next meeting following ( October 3 rd , 1849 ) : " Bro . Wainman Holmes promised to arrange the Bye-Laws and submit them to the inspection of our next meeting for the approval of the Brethren . " Notwithstanding these efforts and promises , the matter seems to have been allowed to pass out of mind , as it was twenty-one years after this that bye-laws were compiled and printed . The Zetland LodgeGuisbroughNo . 820 , and the St . Germain ' s Lodge , Selby ,

, , No . 827 , were founded in 1849 . On February 26 th , 1850 , Bro . John Walker , senior , again rejoined , but the attendance was anything but satisfactory up to 1853 inclusive . On Monday , 22 nd September , 1851 , the M . W . Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland , laid the foundation stone of St . George ' s Hall , Bradford , on which occasion , for the first time , a special Grand Lodge was held in the old

Exchange Buildings ( now the General Post Office ) , Kirkgate , Bradford , the Provincial Grand Lodge having been previously opened by Bro . Charles Lee , D . Prov . G . M . W . Yorkshire , at eleven a . m . Bro . William H . White , Grand Sec , Bro . Michael Costa , and other distinguished brethren , were present . In May this year the Huddersfield Lodge , having a candidate for one of the Masonic charities , acknowledged the receip t of 120 votes from the Airedale

Lodge . On Wednesday , January 7 th , 1852 ( Nicholas Walker , junior , W . M , Thomas Wharton , Secretary ) , "it was proposed by Bro . Thomas Holmes , and seconded by Bro . John Ambler , that instruction meetings be held every Saturday night at 7 o ' clock , one nig ht at Bro . John Smith's and the other at Bro . Wainman Holmes ' s ; it was unanimously agreed to . Bro . Joseph Walker , Bro . N . Walker , jn , and Bro . John Walker , jr ., are particularly requested to attend . " It is not very difficult to make out from this who were the chief workers in the Lodge at this date .

The Harmony Lodge , Bradford ( No . 874 ) , the North York , Middlesbrough ( No . 876 ) , and the Zetland Lodge , Cleckheaton ( No . 877 ) , were established in this year . On the 8 th September , 1852 , £ 1 was voted from the Lodge funds to a siok brother , and the same amount on Nov . 24 th , 1852 . Bro . Jonathan Walker was again a joining member in this year , and more life was perceptible ^ HriA * ^ Lod ge for many years following . /\&—~^\\

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