Picture No | 10700632 |
Date | 1915 |
Description | Murrays Club opens at Maidenhead |
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Murrays River Club at fashionable Maidenhead, opened in 1915 as a sister club and alternative summer venue to the original Murrays club opened by Jack May in Beak Street, London in 1913. It was located in a Georgian house overlooking the river and was frequented by society types and personalities from the theatrical world. River trips were available early in the evening and the venue was notable for its illuminated dance floor. Some of the guests at the opening are featured here in The Tatler and include, clockwise from top left, Lady Edward Fitzgerald, Mr N Peacock, Lee White and Phyllis Monkman, Peggy Greenough, Jack May, Irene Hammond, Billie Carlton and finallym Kyrle Bellew and Miss Dorothy Langdon.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in The Tatler, 30 June 1915 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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