History & Heritage
Articles
The club's story, told a page at a time.
The Building & Kilgrimol School
Half a century a school, four years derelict, and reopened in 1931 as the finest club on the coast.
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The founder: John Allen
A phrenologist, a newspaperman and an inventor of lifeboats - the man who built the house we live in.
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The Kilgrimol Room
A quiet room named after a village that the sea took, in a building named after a school that took the name first.
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The Town the Club Grew Up In
St Annes was twenty-two years old when the DC was founded - and had already lived through the worst night in the history of the lifeboat service.
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Les Dawson at the DC
President 1983–84 - his name on the honours board in the club's own gold leaf, and his chair still in the corner.
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Gifts of Generous Members
A second roll of honour - screwed quietly beneath the things it paid for.
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The Ladies Bridge Club
Ladies have been living above St Annes District Club since 1931 - sixteen bylaws, no intoxicating liquors, and a 95 year history the menfolk know little about.
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St Annes Pier and the Moorish Pavilion
The Victorian pier, its £30,000 extension and the pavilion that entertained a thousand people.
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Club Memories
A living page. The club's history is not only in the boards on the wall - most of it is in what members remember.
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