Land was acquired in Broom Road, Teddington, for playing fields and within a year, there were active sections in Cricket, Rugby, Football, Rowing, Ladies Hockey, Tennis and Chess.

Between 1920 and the beginning of the Second World War, significant additions to the Lensbury estate were made with property and land purchases on both sides of Broom Road.

During the war years, club activities were suspended and Lensbury became a Shell office and some of the sports grounds were ploughed up to grow vegetables.

[citation needed] In the immediate postwar years, it took time for the Lensbury clubhouse to be free of its wartime role as a Shell office but by the early 1950s, most of the established activities, and many new ones, were in full swing again.

Many new sports and pastimes were introduced, including sailing, judo, ballroom dancing, and keep-it, and membership continued to rise, reaching 7,000 by 1964.

[citation needed] In the 1970s, Lensbury had active sections in 47 sports and pastimes including tennis, hockey, volleyball, bowls, music, drama (Lensbury Theatre Group,[4] bridge, sailing, swimming, motor cruising, sub-aqua, mountaineering (now the LMC Mountaineering Club),[5] fishing, as well as its core rowing, association football, cricket and rugby football teams.

An indoor swimming pool was opened in the same year, and under Yarranton's management, the club's status as a world class sporting venue was enhanced.

Membership reached 13,000 and many international sporting stars were attracted to use the club's facilities, including top tennis players such as Steffi Graf, Chris Evert and John Lloyd, during Wimbledon.

Jennings, and implemented by the new Chairman of the Club, Clive Mather, changes were instituted that were designed first to reduce and then to eliminate Shell's subsidy.

A plan was proposed by members that would have achieved this objective whilst retaining the essential character of the club, including all the team sports, but this was rejected by the Shell directors.

These changes had been initially fought hard by many of Lensbury's traditional members (particularly those in the Cricket, Rugby, Bowls and other long-established sections which were forced to disband) but to no avail.

[6] In 2008, the Lensbury celebrated Children in Need, Genes for Jeans and Link Poverty Family Shoebox Appeal, and in 2009, it acquired a Cyber coach.