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The Travellers Club is a private gentlemen's club situated at 106 Pall Mall in London, United Kingdom. It is the oldest of the surviving Pall Mall clubs , established in 1819, and is one of the most exclusive.
19 Dover Street (1870–1875); 66–68 Pall Mall (1875–1979) Army and Navy officers The cost of the club's elaborate, purpose-built Pall Mall clubhouse bankrupted the club, and it closed in 1879. The building was then acquired by the Beaconsfield Club. Kennel Club: 1873 29a Pall Mall: Dog lovers
Pall Mall was one of the first streets in London to have gas lighting. Pall Mall was the location of the War Office from 1855 to 1906, [23] with which it became synonymous (just as Whitehall refers to the administrative centre of the UK government). The War Office was accommodated in a complex of buildings based on the ducal mansion, Cumberland ...
Dennis Bardens was a keen Freemason and a member of several Lodges in England, mostly meeting at Great Queen Street in London. Bardens was a member of the Travellers Club located in Pall Mall as a result of his Intelligence work for the Security Services and travel overseas.
Former clubhouse at 116 Pall Mall, now used by the Institute of Directors. The United Service Club was a London gentlemen's club founded in 1815 for the use of senior officers in the British Army and Royal Navy – those above the rank of Major or Commander – and the club was accordingly known to its members as "The Senior". The club closed ...
The Reform Club is a private members' club, owned and controlled by its members, on the south side of Pall Mall in central London, England.As with all of London's original gentlemen's clubs, it had an all-male membership for decades, but it was one of the first all-male clubs to change its rules to include the admission of women on equal terms in 1981.
Travellers Club. Pall Mall, London (1830–32) Remodelling Dulwich College largely destroyed when rebuilt by Charles Barry Jr. (1831) The Royal College of Surgeons, (the portico survives from George Dance the Younger's building) London (1834–36) Horsley Towers, Surrey (1834)
The Travellers Club (1829) and The Reform Club (1830), Pall Mall, London, by Charles Barry. In England, the earliest 19th-century application of the Palazzo style was to a number of London gentlemen's clubs. [3] It was then applied to residences, both as town and, less commonly, country houses and to banks and commercial premises. [3]