April ‘26

After a further year as our Ruling Master, W.Bro. Gerald Butterworth duly installed his successor, Bro. Pat Nelson.

Having been comrades-in-arms in their earlier years, it had been a long-held intention that the late W.Bro. Tom would Install Bro. Pat as his successor, but this was not to be. To keep Tom’s memory alive in the Lodge, it had been decided that his apron would be presented to every succeeding Master Mason for his first year in the Chair, through the years
to come. The apron having had a suitably inscribed ‘plate’ added to it’s reverse, it was appropriate and poignant that Bro. Pat should be its first recipient.