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Issue number 95 Summer 2016 BRAVO YORKER BAKERS ZULU EASY The East India GIFT SUGGESTIONS FROM TUMBLERS THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE Decanter Club directory £75 The East India Club ATTIRE 16 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LH Club ties Telephone: 020 7930 1000 Silk woven tie in club Fax: 020 7321 0217 colours. £20 Cut glass tumbler Email: [email protected] Engraved with club Web: www.eastindiaclub.co.uk crest. £30 DINING ROOM Breakfast BOOKS & CDs Monday to Friday 6.45am-10am Saturday 7.15am-10am The East India Club Sunday 8am-10am – A History Lunch by Charlie Jacoby. Monday to Friday 12.30pm-2.30pm An up-to-date look at Sunday (buffet) 12.30pm-2.30pm Scarf the characters who have (pianist until 4pm) £17 Club bow ties made up the East India Tie your own and, Club. £10 Saturday sandwich menu available for emergencies, Dinner clip on. £20 Club polo Monday to Saturday 6.30pm-9.30pm In red or black, Sundays (light supper) 6.30pm-8.30pm L, XL, XXL. £25 Table reservations should be made with the Front Desk or the Dining Room and will only be held for 15 minutes after the booked time. Hatband AMERICAN BAR £15 Club V-neck Monday to Friday 11.30am-11pm Lambswool in burgundy, Saturday 11.30am-3pm L, XL, XXL. £55 & 5.30pm-11pm Sunday noon-4pm & 6.30pm-10pm Cufflinks The Gentlemen’s Members resident at the club can obtain drinks from Enamelled cufflinks the hall porter after the bar has closed. with club crest, Clubs of London chain or bar. £24.50 New edition of EAST INDIA ROOM Anthony Lejeune’s Monday to Friday. Light food and wine menu. Use of classic. £28 electronic devices on silent is permissible. SMOKING ROOM & WATERLOO ROOM OTHER ITEMS Drinks and light menu from 9am to 10.30pm. Saturday and Sunday 10am to 10pm. Mug BILLIARDS ROOM £14 Open to members from 9am to midnight. Pass keys will not be issued after 11pm. Chocolate mint GYMNASIUM creams £8 Open to members from 6am to 10pm. Club blazers Club shield Suitable attire must be worn. £315/£345 (navy) £345 (sports) £35 BEDROOM CHARGE Includes early morning tea, newspaper, English Club waistcoats breakfast, discretionary £5 per person per night £160 contribution to the staff fund, and VAT. All bed- Golf balls rooms are non smoking. Titleist golf balls. Bearing club crest. £29 per dozen Members Napkin Single with bathroom £115 (£71*) hook Single with shower £96 (£61*) £40 Golf tees Single without facilities £79 (£52*) Tin of 50 ‘personalised’ Double or twin room for single occupancy £149 Double or twin room for double occupancy £171 East India golf tees. £7.75 St James’s Suite £277 Reciprocal members & guests Blazer buttons Single with bathroom £145 (£91*) Golf umbrellas Double breasted. Single with shower £126 (£81*) Made in club Double or twin room for single occupancy £174 £45 colours of silver, Double or twin room for double occupancy £201 Single breasted. £30 blue and red. £17 St James’s Suite £307 Club print * Special rate on Friday, Saturday, Sunday A picture of the Post and packing for non-breakables from and bank holidays clubhouse on a £3. Breakable items are for collection typical London MEMBERSHIP CARDS from the club instead of posting. early evening. Members are required to carry their membership cards at all times when visiting the club, and 52.5cm by CLUB WINE: present them on arrival. It is essential that they are 40cm. See page 17 for details produced when signing for charges to accounts. £61.50 2 EAST & WEST – SUMMER 2016 Leather meets willow meets the boundary meets applause as Club diary... the club wins the Turnbull Cup. It is one of the highlights of a happy summer of club events, from toasts to HM The Queen on CHAIRMAN’S REPORT August 29 Bank holiday her 90th birthday in the gardens to an excellent gin tasting September 19 Lord Mayor’s luncheon CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 29 Grouse dinner October he ball eased over the boundary as & Out took the microphone to introduce the 2 Harvest festival and lunch smoothly as a glass of club claret toast, led by all three chairmen, to HM The 29 Classic cars T and – yes! The East India Cricket Queen on the official celebration of her 90th 19 Trafalgar lecture and dinner Club had beaten the Chobham President’s birthday. I could not resist letting John know XI by six wickets with seven overs to spare of my own appointment as Admiral of the November and so claim the Turnbull cup for the first East India Yacht Squadron! The buffet supper 3 House dinner and conversation back in our own Smoking 9 Library lecture and dinner Room was full of the buzz of the famous 11 Rugby lunch East India Club warmth and hospitality. I also 16 Port tasting was struck on that most pleasant summer evening how magnificent the garden looks. It December was particularly good to have the gardeners 2 Rugby lunch themselves present. I am sure you will join 7 Christmas party me in expressing to them and to the St 8 Carol concert and dinner James’s Square Trust our appreciation of their 11 Advent carols achievements. My late father’s birthday was on 23 June. He had a successful career in the Royal Air The chairman presents Chris Douse, captain of the Force and this year he would have been August bank holiday winning East India Club team, with the Turnbull Bars and catering are closed after cup. Organiser Duncan Steele-Bodger looks on 101. I always think of him with gratitude breakfast on Sunday 28 August on his birthday. On this 23 June I cannot of and reopen on Tuesday 30 August. time in three attempts. The augurs were course avoid mention of the EU referendum, Accommodation and continental already set fair when the East India Club which has forced its way into all our lives. As breakfast remain available. bowling attack took the first three Chobham predicted the result was indeed very close and wickets for no runs in the first over of the day. thus I can assume that East India members are Congratulations to Chris Douse and his team. to be found on both sides of the debate with Christmas Once again we had a fine lunch and a great their customary commitment and passion. The club closes after lunch on Friday day out at Chobham and this fitting memorial For my part I found the debate itself hard to 23 December 2016 and reopens at to former chairman David Turnbull is firmly listen to and I am glad it is over. It is up to us 9am on Tuesday 3 January 2017. established in our calendar. now in the best East India Club tradition to The cloakroom and day lockers will David, who was an accomplished Jazz mend the divisions and seek the most positive be cleared of left items. pianist, would also have enjoyed our evening outcomes for the future. at the start of the weekend. The Spike Wells We are just past midsummer’s day and it is Trio provided two sets of top quality jazz for a the height of the season. It seems to me this sophisticated and appreciative audience in the summer is more lush and green than ever. Smoking Room, reorganised The fishing is going well for me into jazz club layout for and I am building up a stock of I am resolved to the purpose. This informal excellent smoked trout – it goes atmosphere, excellent cottage continue with my down well with club Burgundy. pie and the free-flowing balanced diet: a glass Shortly, we shall have the East & West wine and the immaculate in each hand highlight of the Jazz Barbecue classic jazz from Spike and the“ in the Square (weather gods Editor: Charlie Jacoby permitting) and I am looking 07850 195353 [email protected] trio made a very successful evening. I particularly enjoyed a lovely number forward to the trip to the battlefields the Designer: Chris Haddon 01279 422219 [email protected] entitled Gabriel’s Oboe and the rousing finale following week. This July marks the 100th year Photography: Phil McCarthy. To view, download of the second set was a jazz setting of a hymn since” the battle of the Somme. The dark days or order photography, login to the members’ - I am sure it will encourage us to have some from June to November 1916 serve to remind area of EastIndiaClub.com and select event more jazz evenings in future. us that we have much to enjoy at present in photography The summer party was I think better than what Churchill would describe as ‘the sunlit Sub-editor: Cicely Drewe ever. The reception in the Square had a special uplands’. So I wish everyone all the best for 3 Printed by: Colour (ColourCubed.co.uk) atmosphere, helped by the Champagne and the remainder of the summer whether fishing, Published on behalf of The East India Club by some fine canapés. The In & Out, the Rag and sailing, playing, watching or just relaxing in Charlie Jacoby, c/o The East India Club www.charliejacoby.com the East India have successfully established the shade. I am resolved to continue with my Cover photo: the tri clubs summer reception a tradition of coming together for this balanced diet: a glass in each hand. event. Vice Admiral John McAnally of the In Iain Wolsey, chairman EAST & WEST – SUMMER 2016 3 NEWS From steamy evenings in the Smoking Room listening to jazz The open road to hot trips across South Africa in search of heroism, the club has offered a feast of events for members to enjoy in 2016.