Reform Club Lower Hillgate and Wellington Road Stockport

STOCKPORT -The old Reform Club at the corner of Lower Hillgate and Wellington Street has been pulled down, and there is being erected on its site a larger club. The principal entrance is in Wellington Street, which gives access to all the rooms in the club, and from the same street there is an entrance to the steward's department. Entering by the main doorway, a vestibule and hall 11 feet 6 inches in width open on to a wide staircase leading up to the first floor. On the ground floor there are to be a reading-room, dining-room, and lavatory. Attached to the dining-room there will be a serving-room, with a lift communicating with the kitchen (which is placed at the top of the building) and also with the cellars. All the principal rooms on this floor will be 15 feet high from floor to ceiling, and the dining-room and reading-room are separated only by a movable partition. On the first floor provision is made for billiard-rooms, a card room, a bar, and lavatories. It is proposed to warm the building throughout with hot water. The contract has been intrusted to Messrs Robert Neill and Sons, and is being carried out under the superintendence of Messrs J. W. and R. F. Beaumont, architects, of Manchester, by whom the plans were prepared. [Building News 12 July 1889 page 58].

Reference           Building News 12 July 1889 page 58