It was the only combined library and club in Sydney and, in 1936, was the first business to sign up as an occupant of the newly completed heritage listed City Mutual Life Assurance Building.
In the evening it became a venue for balls, receptions, private parties, social events and at least one wedding ceremony.
[11] Following Hill's marriage to Dr. Michael Neylon ( - 1949) in July 1947, her brother-in-law Robert Milne Stephen ( - 1965), who became known as Mr Pickwick, took over the management of business.
[12][13][14][15][16] Initially situated in Her Majesty's Theatre in Pitt Street, the club relocated to larger premises in the neighbouring Civil Services Stores in 1930 before its final move to the Mutual Life Assurance Building where it was located in the basement with the walls decorated with murals inspired by Charles Dicken's Pickwick Papers.
[17] The book club's colours were orange and black, and to celebrate its first anniversary in 1929, a ball was held in support of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.