CLUB NEWS

JUNE 2010

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT

We announce with deep regret the death of the club’s president Mr Peter Briggs. He had only been elected to the position a few weeks earlier.

A member of the club for 40 years, Peter for many years had run for member’s very popular holiday trips to resorts all over the country. He completed his last trip only a month before his death to Woolacombe in North Devon.

As the club’s historian he was playing a leading role in preparing for the club’s centenary celebrations which will take place at the end of October. 

CLUB CENTENARY

The club opened in October 1910, in a 200 years old house in Baker Street, Enfield. A listed building, it remains the club’s headquarters although extensive alterations and additions have been made over the years. Last year the club recruited a record number of new members.

The Centenary will be celebrated at the end of October. The programme will include an Old Time Music Hall, and a Commemorative Dinner when the principal guests will include Nick DeBois, recently elected M.P. for Enfield North, and Phillip Smith, Secretary of the Association of Conservative Clubs.

Martin Phillips, a very popular entertainer at the club, has been booked for the Saturday evening entertainment, and on Sunday Bill Freeman’s Happy Jazz Band will be performing in the lounge.