Games & Sports

Built in December 1937, one of the oldest swimming pools in the city. Perhaps inspired by the famous Lido — the public swimming baths of Europe, it was designed with a fountain, the streamlined curves of which followed the modernist Art-Deco style of the 1920s-1930s. The Diving Tower and springboard were added in February 1938.

Popular in the club from the early years of its inception. Sanctioned in 1906 in the Anchor Hall, in what was then the Supper Room, the club now has 2 indoor badminton courts in the Sports Complex.

One of the oldest sports facilities at the club. Now glass-walled, the court was originally built in 1932 inside the Racquets Court with polished wooden seating stands and a white cedar wood floor.

Tennis courts at the club were first proposed because it was ‘remarked on all sides that the club is unsociable; and it appears to be generally recognised that it has little attraction, and indeed is not used by members until after six o'clock in the evening’. Thereon, the sport proved to be extremely popular and profitable, so much so that additional courts were built in 1912 and 1913, taking the tally up to six. Today, members enjoy 4 synthetic courts and 2 clay courts.

The Billiard Room has stayed in its original location since the establishment of the club. The room preserves its authenticity and was also seen in David Lean’s period film, ‘A Passage to India’ that was set in 1920s India. In 1901, it was the venue of an exhibition match between top-notch billiards players at the club and the legendary John Roberts Jr., English billiards champion, inventor of the ‘top of the table’ game and manufacturer of the most famous billiards tables in the Victorian world. Electric bells fitted from the Billiard Room to an indicator board at the bar in 1898 and the fact that the Billiard Room had its own bar in 1899 indicate just how popular the game was at the club.