130 years have elapsed since Palatine Lodge met for the first time in 1893. I have all the Lodge records stored very carefully in my loft, unfortunately when they were received into my care the various boxes that held them were rather the worse for wear and after being moved around several more times the old containers finally succumbed to the ravages of time and fell to pieces. This meant of course that everything became muddled and out of date order. I have spent some considerable time sorting through everything to establish some form of order. I had intended this task to take the minimum amount of time as possible, but I didn’t account for the mountain of fascinating documents that has commanded my interest for weeks. Reproduced here are some that caught my attention and serve to remind us of the past.