Club Officials:
President – Alan Nevin
Chairman – Lou Page
Secretary – Howard Holt
Source: www.spelthorne.gov.uk
Conservative Club 1 – 3 Market Square Staines
Grid Reference: TQ03417151
Building Reference: LL/087
Date Locally Listed: 19 February 2004
Built 1887. Pleasant design in vernacular style. Roughly symmetrical. English bond, buff brick with red brick bands and glazing bar enrichments. Coved eaves cornice. Hipped slate roof. Main feature of front is roughly central chimney with weathered offsets and ridged shafts. Wide 4 light windows on each side of chimney.
Dedication tablet on large chimney. Victoria County History, “History of Middlesex”/Kelly’s Directory notes that several political clubs existed in Staines by mid 1880s.
Spelthorne Local List – February 2004 – Updated December 2016, may refer to this Conservative club.
Plaque on wall states “This stone commemorates the opening of the Staines and Egham-Hythe Constitutional Club on 19th May 1887 was laid by Mrs Dixon Hartland and Mrs Hanley, the wives of the members for the Divisions of Uxbridge and Chertsey.”
Large upper room was known as Victoria Hall.
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Staines Conservative Club
The building closest to the Town Hall, on this side of the square, is now the Staines Conservative Club. It was opened in 1887 as the Staines & Egham Constitutional Club. Most of the original features of the building have been preserved and a plaque on its front states:
“This Stone to commemorate the opening of the Staines and Egham Hythe Constitutional Club on 19th May 1887 was laid by Mrs Dixon Hartland and Mrs Hankey the wives of the members of Divisions of Uxbridge & Chertsey.”