Ravensthorpe and Northorpe Conservative Club
Ravensthorpe &
Northorpe Conservative Club
The club was opened on the 29th
March 1886 with the title of
The club had acquired premises on North Road,
Ravensthorpe, which they had then adapted for use as a club. The upstairs room had been converted and
furnished as a billiards room.
Downstairs was a reading room and a “conversation room” as well as a
bar, a kitchen and caretakers accommodation.
The club was opened by its President J. Nevin, also present were Edward
Theodore Ingham, JP, J.H.Wheatley and several other prominent local
Conservatives.
At its opening the club already had 130 members and it was hoped that this would quickly rise to 200. Mr Nevin said in his address that there had been a great need to open a Conservative Club in that particular area of the Morley Division. Edward Ingham proposed a vote of success to the club. Yorkshire Post 31 March 1886
“Ravensthorpe and Northorpe Conservative Club.”
At its opening the club already had 130 members and it was hoped that this would quickly rise to 200. Mr Nevin said in his address that there had been a great need to open a Conservative Club in that particular area of the Morley Division. Edward Ingham proposed a vote of success to the club. Yorkshire Post 31 March 1886
J. W. W. Shuttleworth, prospective Conservative candidate
for Dewsbury, visited the club in May 1928 as part of his tour of his new
constituency. His visit was well received
by club members who gave him
in the club whilst affirming his “complete adherence
to the Conservative cause.” Leeds Mercury 5 May 1928
There are very few reports about
the club but regular entries in Kelly’s Directory from 1889 until 1936. The secretary is shown in these entries and
one secretary in particular showed long service to the club. Hallas Lockwood appears in the directory in
1927 and 1936 and he celebrated 31 years as secretary of the club in May
1943. Yorkshire Post 3 May 1943.
“a cordial welcome”
and he was reported to have
spent a
“pleasant social hour”
