Conservative Club, School Lane and Green Lane, Standish Wigan

A Conservative Club at Standish was formally opened by Lord Balcarres on Saturday. The premises consist of club buildings. with caretaker's residence and bowling green, pleasantly situated in School Lane and Green Lane, near the Grammar School. Tho bowling green is 40 yards square. and is on the south side of the club with access from the building on that side, and with excellent view of the windows. The building is of rural design, the outside walls to the level of ground floor sills are faced with Accrington bricks and all above cemented and dashed with Derbyshire spar. Roofs covered with red Ruabon tiles. All inside woodwork is stained and varnished and the walls and ceilings decorated with Duresco. The billiard room all round is fitted with upholstered seating. Tho accommodation on the ground floor is entrance hail. cloak room, lavatory, etc., billiard room with two tables, bar, card and reading rooms, and living rooms, and upstairs large assembly hall, committee room. lavatory, and Caretaker's bedroom. There is a basement containing store cellars and heating chamber; also a yard for tool store and outside offices, and a private yard for the caretaker. The sole contractor for the building is Mr. James Liptrot, Standish; the sub-contractors are - for roof tiling. plastering and concreting, Livesey and Company; plumbing, glazing, painting, and ventilating, Gaskell and Son; and brickwork John Wilson; all of Wigan. The seating and furnishing are by Pendlebury and Co., Crawford House, Wigan. The bowling green has been laid and the borders planted by Mr George Scholes of Standish. The architect is Mr. R. Pennington, Library Street, Wigan, under whose supervision the work has been carried out. [Wigan Observer 24 February 1912 page 9]

Reference    Wigan Observer 24 February 1912 page 9] with illustration