The earliest fixed record we have is the minutes of the General Meeting of the Orbiston Curling Club on the 28th December 1877. This meeting reappointed some office bearers so the club had existed for some time. This meeting also gave a hearty vote of thanks to Mr Walter Nelson for the valuable services he had rendered to the club as secretary, it does not say for how long he served, and it was just after they had voted him out of office.
At the next general meeting in January 1878 it was agreed that the secretary purchase a minute book. The minutes of the December meeting were the first entered.
Someone has written in pencil before the first minute: “This is not the beginning of the Club. The minute book previous to this one cannot be found”. Given the decision to buy a book and not a replacement and that the December minutes are entered in this book then it seems likely that there never was a previous book