Reform Club Premises 15, King Street West, Wigan

REFORM CLUB, WIGAN - On the 12th inst. the foundation-stone of the new Reform Club at Wigan was laid by Mrs. Woods. The design comprises in the basement a restaurant, smoke-room, bar, kitchen, etc. The ground floor contains a large shop and show-room, and the first floor contains the club premises, consisting of a dining-room 36 feet by 20 feet, with a movable partition between the reading-room, a billiard-room for two tables, a large front smoke-room, a committee-room or private room, and a bar, which forms the approach to the balcony over the front entrance. The second floor contains a billiard-room, a smoke-room, a bar, and the caretaker's living rooms, etc. The rooms for the club are arranged so as to be easily accessible from the central staircase and landings. Provision is made in the basement for hot-water apparatus, and the rooms are intended to be ventilated by special air flues built with the chimney-breasts; also the large billiard-room by roof ventilators. The front is to be built of pressed brick, with stone dressings. The architects are Messrs. Heaton & Ralph. [Builder 22 April 1893 page 310]

Reference    Builder 24 December 1892 page 508 - contracts
Reference    Builder 22 April 1893 page 310 - foundation stone