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Issue number 102 Christmas 2018 QUICK COCK HICK ROCK TICK-TOCK GIFT SUGGESTIONS FROM The East India Decanter THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE £85 Club directory Ties The East India Club Silk woven tie in club Cut glass tumbler 16 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LH colours. £20 Telephone: 020 7930 1000 Engraved with club Fax: 020 7321 0217 crest. £30 Email: [email protected] Web: www.eastindiaclub.co.uk The East India Club DINING ROOM – A History Breakfast by Charlie Jacoby. Monday to Friday 6.45am-10am An up-to-date look at the Saturday 7.15am-10am characters who have made Sunday 8am-10am up the East India Club. £10 Lunch Monday to Friday 12.30pm-2.30pm Scarf Sunday (buffet) 12.30pm-2.30pm (pianist until 4pm) £17 Bow ties Compact Saturday sandwich menu available Tie your own and, mirror Dinner for emergencies, £22 Monday to Saturday 6.30pm-9.30pm Sundays (light supper) 6.30pm-8.30pm clip on. £20 The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London V-neck jumper Table reservations should be made with the Front Lambswool in Desk or the Dining Room and will only be held for New edition of 15 minutes after the booked time. Pre-theatre, Anthony Lejeune’s burgundy, L, XL, let the Dining Room know if you would like a quick Hatband classic. £28 XXL. £55 supper. £15 Notelets AMERICAN BAR £3.75 Monday to Friday 11.30am-11pm Saturday 11.30am-3pm & 5.30pm-11pm Sunday noon-4pm & 6.30pm-10pm Cufflinks Members resident at the club can obtain drinks from Enamelled cufflinks the hall porter after the bar has closed. with club crest, EAST INDIA ROOM chain or bar. £24.50 Polo shirt Monday to Friday. Light food and wine menu. Use of In red or black, electronic devices on silent is permissible. L, XL, XXL. £28 SMOKING ROOM & WATERLOO ROOM Monday to Friday Tea and coffee from 9am Light menu 10am-10.30pm Drinks 11am-11pm Mug Weekend Light menu 10am-10pm £14 Drinks 11am-10pm BILLIARDS ROOM Chocolate mint Open to members from 9am to midnight. Pass keys will not be issued after 11pm. creams £8 GYMNASIUM Blazers Club shield Open to members from 6am to 10pm. £395 (navy) £350 (sports) Suitable attire must be worn. £35 BEDROOM CHARGES (from 2019) Waistcoat Includes early morning tea, English breakfast, £160 Golf balls discretionary £5 per person per night contribution Titleist golf balls. Bearing to the staff fund, and VAT. All bedrooms are non club crest. £29 per dozen smoking. Napkin Members & immediate family hook Single ensuite £127 (£77*) £40 Golf tees Single with small shower £106 (£66*) Tin of 50 ‘personalised’ Single without facilities £85 (£56*) Double or twin room for single occupancy £173 East India golf tees. £7.75 Double or twin room for double occupancy £187 St James’s Suite £302 Reciprocal members & guests Blazer buttons View from the Single ensuite £166 (104*) Double breasted. £50 garden Single with small shower £145 (£92*) Single breasted. £35 Double or twin room for single occupancy £208 Print of the club Double or twin room for double occupancy £228 exterior. £65 St James’s Suite £356 Post and packing for non-breakables from * Special rate on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays £3. Breakable items are for collection from the club instead of posting. MEMBERSHIP CARDS Members are required to carry their membership cards at all times when visiting the club, and Umbrellas CLUB WINE: present them on arrival. It is essential that they are Short. £20 Rugby ball produced when signing for charges to accounts. Long. £25 £25 See page 17 for details 2 EAST & WEST – CHRISTMAS 2018 With the Christmas party season in full swing, the chairman Club diary looks back at a long, hot, summer in London (though drenched January 2019 for our barbecue), and a pleasant break in Paris visiting one of CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 8 Film club the best of our reciprocal clubs. 8 Wine tasting 23 Members’ & daughters’ dinner 25 Casino evening 31 Burns supper CHAIRMAN’S REPORT February ne of the less heralded benefits of the library committee and St John Brown, and 8 Rugby lunch v France our club membership is the extensive to see the Sandy Burnett Trio organised by 12 Wine tasting list of reciprocal clubs available to the jazz section and Howard Lambert. 22 Jazz at No 16 O the discerning traveller. Although certainly The Lord Mayor’s lunch is always fully March less exotic than the unforgettable Mid Ocean booked and marks the start of our autumn / 5 Film club Club in Bermuda, which my wife and I visited winter programme of club events. This year 5 Library lecture & dinner in 2015, our prime reciprocal in Paris, the had a particular significance as the centenary 15 Rugby lunch v Scotland Cercle de l’Union Interalliée, still makes a real year of its introduction at the Eccentric Club 21 Gourmet evening impression. Situated next door to the British in 1918. To mark the occasion, we invited all former Lord Mayors who had joined the April East India as honorary members and were 3 Sports dinner delighted that six were able to attend. It was 7 Oxford & Cambridge boat races a splendid and prolonged afternoon, and we 17 Young members’ dinner now look forward to the next hundred years. 23 St George’s day dinner The harvest festival service, held at the Tower of London, is another club regular, May and the house dinner with Henry Blofeld is 7 Film club especially memorable. A legendary figure in 15 AGM the cricketing world, he boasts a lifetime of 6-8 Champagne tour Test Match Special anecdotes. As you would Christmas expect the event sold out in a very short time. The chairman speaking at the Lord Mayor’s lunch The club closes for Christmas after The autumn rugby internationals took lunch on Friday 21 December 2018 Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, place on successive Saturdays throughout and re-opens at 9am on Wednesday it boasts grand rooms and an elegant first November. As well as Australia, Japan and 2 January 2019. floor dining room overlooking beautiful, South Africa there was particular excitement private gardens. After the excitement and as England also took on New Zealand for Sunday lunch party atmosphere of three days at Le Golf the first time since 2014. At time of writing, On most Sundays throughout the year, National, watching Europe regain the Ryder this represents a daunting challenge but a sumptuous lunch buffet is provided Cup, it was a welcome change of pace for a should give a clear indication of their relative to the accompaniment of a pianist. celebratory lunch on the Monday before our strengths with the Rugby World Cup in Japan Ascot flight home. I can highly recommend it. only 12 months away. The club’s box at Ascot has dates As we look back on the hottest and driest The club ballot for debenture seats was available for booking. Please contact summer on record it is still painful to recall the over-subscribed, as ever, and Matthew the membership secretary. biblical deluge that befell our Club barbecue Ebsworth organised rugby lunches at the in July, as it was so localised and yet so heavy. club prior to the New Zealand and Australia The upside was a display of stoicism from our fixtures which set the scene perfectly for the staff and the jazz band that following day’s matches. was impressive to behold As the year end as almost 200 of us were The upside was a approaches, all members relocated from the square to display of stoicism will be receiving their East & West the clubhouse at the double. “ from our staff and renewal letters for Editor: Charlie Jacoby It is an extraordinary feature 2019. As forewarned, 07850 195353 [email protected] the jazz band that of our club layout that, with the committee has had Designer: Chris Haddon the Dining Room already fully was impressive to raise subscriptions 07792 515056 [email protected] booked that night, the crowd again to offset the Sub-editor: Lucy Sloan [email protected] could still be accommodated, fed, watered and continuing increase in business rates and entertained within the Waterloo, Smoking the expected” uplift in London Living Wage. Photography: Phil McCarthy. To download or order photography, login to the members’ and East India rooms. It was a triumph It is unwelcome but sadly inevitable and I area of EastIndiaClub.com and select event snatched from the jaws of disaster and much hope that you will continue to support both photography appreciated by members to judge from the the club, by renewing your membership, Printed by: Colour3 (ColourCubed.co.uk) numerous letters I received in the aftermath and the staff who have looked after us with Published on behalf of The East India Club by congratulating the secretary and staff. such dedication during the year, by giving Charlie Jacoby, c/o The East India Club www.charliejacoby.com In the months since, we have had a generously to the staff fund appeal. Cover photo: Waterloo Place full house for library lectures on the RAF centenary and then Churchill, organised by Duncan Steele-Bodger, Chairman EAST & WEST – CHRISTMAS 2018 3 NEWS All active members of the section gained ROWING valuable experience both on and off of the water, and our relationship with Auriol Kensington RC has gone from strength to strength. We borrow their equipment to NEW BLADES supplement our own coxless four, Cecil. by Mike Biggs and Rory Hunt In September, we had our section annual dinner, enjoyed by all.