Saltburn Conservative & Unionist Club celebrate 100 years
On the 23rd February 1912 the Club Trustees – Arnold Babb Gridley, Ralph Townshend Hughes and William Ineison signed a 5 year term, £52 per annum lease agreement for 1, Balmoral Terrace (known as “Balmoral House”) with the owner, Mary Beatrice Critchley, a widow of “Britannia House”. The lease did not include the shop, part of the building facing Dundas Street then under the occupancy of George Ennis. The Conservative Party was formed in 1834, the
Liberal Unionist Party in 1886. They shared power in a coalition government in 1895, their main common ground being opposition to Irish Home Rule, fearing it would be the catalyst for the break-up of the United Kingdom and the colonies. The two Parties continued to work closely together but did not become fully merged until 1912, the year the lease was signed. Mary Critchley purchased the building in 1900 for
£1,750 from Messrs Ord and Maddison, quarry owners of Darlington, who in turn had purchased the property (along with 3, Balmoral Terrace) from Robert Thompson in 1868. In 1900 Mrs. Critchley had taken out a mortgage of £1,300 at 4% from William Foster Lax, a farmer of Aldbrough near Darlington. In 1922 Mr. Lax gave notice to the Club to vacate the premises by the November of that year . In January 1922 Mr. Lax had been granted the liberty to sell the property by the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division. Mrs. Critchley was by now deceased and her heirs
had been made bankrupt and had defaulted on the mortgage to Lax.
The property, now including the shop (in occupancy
by a Jos Parks), was offered for sale by public auction at the Queens Hotel at 6.30 on Tuesday, 16th May 1922. The then Club Trustees, William Robert Lister (a Tees Pilot of Windsor Road), Thomas Nataniel McBenn (Coal merchant of “Craigmore”) and William Chadwick Coates-Taylor (Chemist of Upleatham Road) were the highest bidders at £1,375. The conveyance was completed in June 1923 and the Club subsequently took out a mortgage of £1,000 at 5% from Robert Wood, a Solicitor of 1, Albion Terrace. Finally, on 20th December 1945 the Trustees, now
John Murray, Peter Graham and Cyril Claud Hamilton, paid Robert Wood £700 (£24k today) to discharge the mortgage to wholly own 1, Balmoral Terrace on behalf of the Club Members. Whether the removal from office of Winston Churchill and the landslide election win by Labour in July 1945 influenced the Trustees, we don’t know! Club Members are cordially invited to join the
Trustees, Officers and Committee for our 100th Annual General Meeting with our President, Michael Sellars, in the Chair on 26th March 2012. To help compile a definitive account of the Club’s
history any embellishments to names or details of the above would be most welcome – please contact our Secretary Mr. David Rigg.
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