Of the London clubs compelled to change their headquarters recently, to make way for monster blocks of fats or offices, few can have been so fortunate in their choice of a new site as the New Garden Club.
Squeezed out of Curzon Street, this year-old club has started life an at 148 Piccadilly, three doors from the former home of the King and Queen.
The building, leased from Lord Rothschild, faces both Hyde Park and Green Park. It has one of the largest and finest gardens in the West End a not inappropriate feature for a club of garden lovers The roof of the New Garden Club commands a memorable view over London, what first catches the eye is an old iron chair on the roof of the house next door. It was in chair that the first Duke of Wellington. long after Waterloo, would sit to watch his troops coming up Constitution Hill
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