History Of The Airedale Lodge, No. 387,

363 Minerva Hull 467 407 Amphibious Little Gomersal 489 408 Newtonian Rnaresborough 490 436 Nelson of the Nile ... Batley 500 438 Duke of York ' s Bingley 502 439 Royal Yorkshire Keighley 503

440 Globe Scai'bo rough 504 461 Harmony Halifax 517 493 Loyal and Prudent ... Leeds 532 496 Phoanix Rotherham ... 533 504 Samaritan Keighlev 539 505 Philanthropic Skipton " 540

506 Three Graces Barnoldwick 541 512 Fidelity Leeds 546 513 Hudclersfield Huddersfield .. 547 525 Constitutional Beverley 554 527 Royal Brunswick Sheffield 556 539 Hope Bradford 565

542 Philanthropic Leeds 568 546 Alfred - Leeds 571 549 Prince Frederick ... ... Hebden Bridge ... .. 573 550 Prince George ... ... Ha worth ... 574 556 Ebenezer Pateley Bridge 580 ¦ 561 Lion Whitby 583

575 Airman ' s Almondbury 594 576 Mariner ' s Selby ... 595 635 Candour Upper Mill 642

The Apollo Lodge , York , No . 290 , and the Albion , Skipton , No . 460 , had expired , and the Britannia , "Whitb y , No . 332 , had been erased by Grand Lodge . The Mariner ' s Lodge , Selby , No . 576 , was practically extinct , but at the Union received a new number ( 595 ) . The last record of the Duke of York's Lodge at Bingley is dated January 25 th , 1815 , which date may be said to have closed its career , although it was not erased by Grand Lodge until March 5 th 1828 ( as 502 ) . The last name

, registered b y Grand Lodge was George Askew , August , 3 rd 1808 , and the last payment to the Fund of Benevolence in November of the same year . In 1822 , for neglecting the returns , the W . M . and Wardens were summoned to attend Grand Lodge on the 4 th December , and to produce the warrant and books . The old seal of the Duke of York's LodgeBingleyis still in existence .

, , The old pedestals ( presented in 1876 to Bro . Marchbank ) withstood the " wear and tear " of moving , etc ., throughout the varied vicissitudes of the Duke of York's Lodge from 1788 to 1815 , and being removed from Bingley to Baildon , were in use in the new lodge constituted there as the Airedale Lodge , No . 814 , up to its removal to Shipley in 1868 . They were then stowed away in the kitchen of the new rooms in Westgate , and regarded as useless lumber until

Bro . Marchbank expressed a wish to have them for his " practice " room at Bradford , at the same time volunteering to give a more useful piece of furniture for the kitchen , which at that time was much needed . They were accordingly unanimously voted to him as his propert y , 25 th May , 1876 . Bro . Marchbank at once had these pedestals most beautifully renovated for his practice roomwhere they continued in xegular weekly usenot onlfor the

, , y benefit of the Bradford "Airedale" brethren , hut many members of other Lodges availed themselves of the instruction meetings there held , myself and Bro . F . W . Booth , P . M ., being Instructing Masters . However , when the New Hall in Kirkgate , Shipley , was built in 1878 , the brethren considered these