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Archbishop Wine Oddities Waterloo Issue number 87 December 2013 ARCHBISHOP WATERLOO WINE ODDITIES OUTDOORS INDOORS GIFT SUGGESTIONS From TUMBLERS The East India Square tumbler THE secretary’S OFFICE Engraved with club Club directory crest. £18.50 ATTIRE The East India Club Club ties Decanter 16 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LH Silk woven tie in club £75 Telephone: 020 7930 1000 colours. £19.50 Fax: 020 7321 0217 Email: [email protected] Web: www.eastindiaclub.co.uk Cut glass tumbler DINING ROOM Breakfast Engraved with club Monday to Friday 6.45am-10am crest. £25.75 Saturday 7.15am-10am Sunday 8am-10am Lunch BOOKS & CDs The East India Club Monday to Friday 12.30pm-2.30pm Club bow ties Sunday (buffet) 12.30pm-2.30pm – A History Tie your own and, (pianist until 4pm) by Charlie Jacoby. for emergencies, An up-to-date look at Saturday sandwich menu available clip on. £19.50 the characters who have Dinner Scarf made up the East India Monday to Saturday 6.30pm-9.30pm Club. £10 Sundays (light supper) 6.30pm-8.30pm £17 Club song Table reservations should be made with the Front Awake! Awake! Desk or the Dining Room and will only be held for A recording of the club 15 minutes after the booked time. Cufflinks song from the 2009 St Enamelled cufflinks AMERICAN BAR George’s Day dinner. £5 Monday to Friday 11.30am-11pm with club crest, Saturday 11.30am-3pm chain or bar. £24.50 The Gentlemen’s & 5.30pm-11pm Sunday noon-4pm Clubs of London & 6.30pm-10pm New edition of Drinks can be obtained in the Waterloo Room from Anthony Lejeune’s Monday to Sunday. Members resident at the club classic. £28 can obtain drinks from the hall porter after the bar has closed. OTHER ITEMS SMOKING ROOM & WATERLOO ROOM Service from 9am to 10.30pm. Mug Saturday and Sunday 10am to 10pm. £14 BILLIARDS ROOM Club blazers Open to members from 9am to midnight. Chocolates £295/£325 (navy) £325 (sports) Pass keys will not be issued after 11pm. £8 Club shield GYMNASIUM Club waistcoats £61.50 Open to members from 6am to 10pm. £160 Suitable attire must be worn. BEDROOM CHARGE Includes early morning tea, newspaper, English Golf balls breakfast and VAT. All bedrooms are non smoking. Titleist golf balls. Bearing Members club crest. £29 per dozen Single with bathroom £100 (£61*) Single with shower £86 (£52*) Blazer buttons Single without facilities £70 (£43*) Double breasted. Golf tees Double or twin room for single occupancy £136 £45.00 Tin of 50 ‘personalised’ Double or twin room for double occupancy £152 St James’s Suite £252 Single breasted. East India golf tees. £7.75 £30.00 Reciprocal members & guests Single with bathroom £131 (£80*) Single with shower £114 (£70*) V-necked jumpers Golf umbrellas Double or twin room for single occupancy £158 Lambswool V-necked navy and burgundy Made in club Double or twin room for double occupancy £182 jumpers also available. £46.50 St James’s Suite £282 colours of silver, blue and red. £17 * Special rate on Friday, Saturday, Sunday Club print and bank holidays A picture of the Post and packing for non-breakables from clubhouse on a MEMBERSHIP CARDS £3. Breakable items are for collection Members are required to carry their membership typical London from the club instead of posting. cards at all times when visiting the club. early evening. It is essential that they are produced when 52.5cm by CLUB WINE: signing for charges to accounts. 40cm. See page 17 for details £61.50 2 EAST & WEST – WINTER 2013 A super summer season ends with the Lords Mayor’s lunch, an Club diary... autumn season is characterised by a visit from Sweden, the club benefits from refurbishment of its offices and a new look CHAIRMAN’S REPORT January 9 January Wine tasting – an for the Luncheon Room, and now Christmas is upon us introduction 21 January Library talk 30 January Burns Night CHAIRMAN’S REPORT February he festive season approaches fast. this most significant of Waterloo battlefield 7 February Casino Evening The summer season ended with features. 21 February Rugby Lunch T the Lord Mayor’s lunch, which was The club also extended a welcome to 27 February Gourmet Evening again very special. Alderman Roger Gifford the Svenska Klubben i Helsingfors for their was most appreciative of the club, the annual excursion. We were pleased that they March atmosphere and the friendliness. We can be had chosen the East India Club as their main 7 March Rugby Lunch proud of the welcome we give to our guests. event for their UK tour. Some highlights of 13 March Library dinner this are recorded on page 12. It is always a pleasure to welcome our reciprocal clubs April The chairman from all over the world and indeed to be 3 April Young Members’ Dinner at the house dinner welcomed ourselves as I was recently at the 6 April Boat Race event Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club in Dublin. 23 April St George’s Day Dinner The staff offices are now complete, occupied and, I hope you agree, are a May great improvement. The duty manager’s 14 May Annual General Meeting accommodation has also been greatly improved by the addition of en suite Bank Holidays facilities. Over bank holidays, bars and catering are It is also good to record the upgrading closed but accommodation and continental and refurbishment of the bedrooms on the breakfast is provided. This applies after fifth floor in the Duke Street building. After breakfast on the Sunday of the bank holiday setbacks through unforeseen asbestos and weekend and through the Monday. the failure of the lift, success comes with minimal loss of service to members. Christmas I am particularly pleased to see that the The club closes after lunch on Monday 23 fine room which was formerly the Luncheon December 2013 and re-opens at 9am on Room, has emerged in a new form, with Thursday 2 January 2014. The cloakroom stunning new decoration and a new range of and day lockers will be cleared of left items. services. Members can relax there alone or in company and read the latest news or racy The Royal Air Force Club at 128 Piccadilly kindly offers its dining facilities to our novels on iPads or Kindles. Refreshments members on dates when our Dining Room and light meals are now offered throughout is closed. Please book in advance on the day until 5pm. Please try it and let us 020 7399 1000. He also noted that the beef was the best know how you would like to see it develop. he could remember. I agree and I gather you At this time of year the notices go out all do too, so thanks to chef Mark Leach and for subscriptions for next year. Younger all the staff for another great event that is a members will notice that the graduation of unique event in the East India subscriptions after age 25 Club calendar. has been extended so that It was a pleasure to attend The Luncheon Room full subscriptions are reached the Waterloo 200 reception has emerged in a new at age 35 rather than age East & West at Apsley House early in form, with stunning 30. All members under 35 September, an occasion will benefit from this change Editor: Charlie Jacoby new decoration and hosted by Lord Douro and which the committee feels 07850 195353 [email protected] “ a new range of Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter, and is more equitable. You will Designer: Chris Haddon services 01279 422219 [email protected] attended by the ambassadors also see, as usual, the note Photography: Phil McCarthy, Alex Bray and Andy of Spain, Portugal and France. reminding us all about Barker.To download or order photography, login to I was reminded of the humour occasioned contributions to the staff fund. Our staff the members’ area of EastIndiaClub.com and follow by the bomb that fell behind Apsley House have yet again shown us this year what the instructions in the war which did little damage except exceptional people they are. I hope we can Sub-editor: Cicely Drewe to dislodge the fig-leaf from the statue of ”again express this in our contribution to the 3 Printed by: Colour (ColourCubed.co.uk) Napoleon – revealing nothing at all beneath staff fund. Published on behalf of The East India Club by it. Waterloo 200 is making great progress I hope to see you at our seasonal events Charlie Jacoby, c/o The East India Club www.charliejacoby.com and we are beginning to see the plans for and I wish everyone a merry Christmas and Cover photo: Piccadilly 2015 taking shape. The club will be the happy and prosperous new year. venue for a Hougoumont dinner to celebrate Iain Wolsey, chairman EAST & WEST – WINTER 2013 3 NEWS The club’s active sports sections see a combination of games Sports shorts played, including rugby and cricket, and sports events attended as spectators, including polo and the news that Auriol Cricket Kensington will have us for the Boat Race new summer event for the club diary will commence in 2014. SPORTS NEWS AThe East India Club cricket team will take on a President’s XI at Chobham the surroundings made up for this. Cricket Club in Surrey on Sunday 6 July. Polo The final event of the season was a Club members and their families welcome. contrast in the sense it was very busy. As by Harman Gill Guards Polo Club says, “The Duke of Cornwall Trophy is the last opportunity to take in some Rugby ith 111 members expressing high-goal matches at Guards Polo Club before interest in watching polo at the the season closes for another year.
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