The Amateur Horticultural Club’s first event
The Mildmay holds a fruit, flower and vegetable show, the first event of the club’s thriving Amateur Horticultural Club
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The Mildmay holds a fruit, flower and vegetable show, the first event of the club’s thriving Amateur Horticultural Club
The CIU opens its first Convalescent Home for members at Pegwell Bay in Kent. The Mildmay’s Jesse Argyle is joint-originator of the scheme which goes on to build two more Homes around the country which give respite and special care to thousands of members recovering from serious or chronic illness
Efforts to finance the purchase of 34 Newington Green flounder, and club member and architect Alfred Allen steps in to buy the freehold from the Club Trustees in his own name, and leases it back to the club. At the same time he also buys the adjoining property at 33 Newington Green and begins to […]
A subcommittee is formed to seek out new larger premises for the club. They identify a large mansion, with 12 rooms and spacious grounds at 34 Newington Green.
The Mildmay Club becomes fully affiliated to the CIU (Clubs and Institute Union) with Jesse Argyle appointed as the club’s delegate there
Jesse Argyle becomes Chairman of the Mildmay Committee. Argyle is private secretary to Charles Booth, the first of whose groundbreaking social survey series The Life and Labour of the People in London is about to be published.
On August 1st, 1888, the Mildmay Radical Club and Institute opens its doors to some thirty members. By November that number had grown to 240. Reference: 1888-11-30 Hackney and Kingsland Gazette
Agreement is reached to rent the furnished premises at 36 Newington Green Road, from the owner, the Ball’s Pond Secular Hall Society. To get things going, loans in the form of bonds, typically for £1, are raised from 15 founding members.