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Points: 1855 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote billesleyexile Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 12:48
Originally posted by Camquin Camquin wrote:

The North Devon club house is 450 years old acording to their web site - so that beats the Jockey club.

The cricket club? It says late 1700s and originally built as a farmhouse on a different page of their own website so one of them is wrong!


The listing notice for same building says probably late 18th/early 19th century. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1163454

Are we counting clubhouses that used to be something else? I only ask, because famously the technically correct answer for "what's the oldest railway station on the network?" would for many years have been Bourne, in Lincs, where a house dating from 1605 was the booking office...
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Points: 6634 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Richard Lowther Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 13:31
Standeven House at Old Crossleyans, Halifax is an example of a clubhouse with a former use, in this case as a dormitory for the old school.

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Points: 12032 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Camquin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 13:46
I was looking at the club info page on the same site.
As you say they do not seen to keep their story straight.
So they are almost certainly the murderer. :-)
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Originally posted by Darth Vadar Darth Vadar wrote:

Maybe not quite the same, but Liverpool St Helens make the following statement on their website;

"Liverpool St Helens traces its origins to 1857 when Liverpool Football Club was formed making it the oldest open rugby club in the World".

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Isn't that sort of claim up there with Barnes'? 
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Originally posted by Robb Robb wrote:

Originally posted by Darth Vadar Darth Vadar wrote:

Maybe not quite the same, but Liverpool St Helens make the following statement on their website;

"Liverpool St Helens traces its origins to 1857 when Liverpool Football Club was formed making it the oldest open rugby club in the World".

Just sayin' like !! Hug

(Its early morning and I am bored!)

Isn't that sort of claim up there with Barnes'? 

Stuart's not that old.... 
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Ba doom tish.
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