Recent acquisition: Members of the Port Elizabeth Club

Posts : 270 Join date : 2010-08-13

Recent acquisition: Cards of members of the Port Elizabeth Club--some with signatures---with names with which you are certainly familiar.

Question: Does anyone have any information on this Port Elizabeth Club? Just found some info on google--started in 1866.

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Very nice !
90th agree

Posts : 947 Join date : 2011-10-21 Location : Algoa Bay

This club is down in Bird Street, PE, and later amalgamated with the St Georges Club and is now called the PE St Georges Club.
It was an exclusive gentleman's club much like the Victoria Club in Pietermaritzburg and the Durban Club on the Victoria Embankment. It excluded from membership any people of colour or other religious denominations as well as the fairer sex.
It's members were the movers and shakers of the colony including amongst other notables Sir Walter Healy-Hutchison.
Balls held there were grand social affairs with gentleman all appearing in their military uniforms with all the bells and whistles attached and the ladies in their finest finery.
Music was provided by a military band.

regards

barry

Posts : 270 Join date : 2010-08-13

Thank you, Barry, for the great info!

Ron I think this is the same club.
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Posts : 270 Join date : 2010-08-13

Yes, Pete, I think it is the same. It looks like some of our Zulu War boys were up there in "High Cotton"
society-wise!