1931 - Norman E. Fields photo showing Old Peak Road in the foreground

As Mr. H.J. Armstrong remembered:

"Then (during the 30's) suddenly the L.R.C. from being a rather Edwardian Tennis Club realised that to survive it must progress. An enterprising committee dug up one of the concrete courts and laid a modern brick dust court, the first in the Colony, which was a great success. Others followed, and when the war came only 2 of the concrete courts and none of the grass courts remained."

Photo Caption:
"Rose and friends at the L.R.C."

(Our downhill neighbour - Garden Terrrace - in the background).

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1938 - Incorporation

Memorandum and Articles of Association

(c) to provide tennis courts at or near the Club, and to lay out and prepare such grounds for tennis and other purposes of the Club and to provide pavilions, swimming baths, lavatories, refreshment rooms and other conveniences in connection therewith.

Hong Kong, 4th April, 1938

'His Majesty the King consents to the to the assignment by the Trustees of the Ladies Recreation Club to the "LADIES RECREATION CLUB" a Corporation ... ' (full text)

Names, Addresses and Description of Subscribers of the Ladies Recreation Club

R. MATHIESON - No. 28, Lugard Road - Married Woman

G.F. WHITE - No. 5, Thorpe Manor, May Road - Married Woman

MARY E. OLIVER - No. 20, Peak Road - Married Woman

M. MARTIN - No. 7, Branksome Towers, May Road - Married Woman

A. G. WADDELL - No. 505, The Peak - Married Woman

H. M. PROPHET - No, 20, Peak Road - Married Woman

SARA RALSTON - No. 151, The Peak - Married Woman