[3] It was moved to its present position in 1889 when the current St Luke's Church was built in The Avenue.

[3] Its close association with the history of Kew led to it being listed in 2005 by the local council as a Building of Townscape Merit.

[6][7] Alderman James Weeks Szlumper, an engineer and major benefactor of Darell Road School, who had also been mayor of Richmond,[8] was, for many years, the club's president and patron.

[8][9] The club was renowned for the amount of money it raised to send cigarettes to British soldiers at the front in the First World War.

[3] A photograph shows Alderman Szlumper seated between the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth).