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Tredegar Park Golf Club's new clubhouse was opened on Wednesday. Eighteen months ago a disastrous fire destroyed the original building, and out of what were ashes has risen a rendezvous of which any golf club might well be proud.
Temporary premises were found at the Gaer- and quite useful temporary premises they were too.
Immediate action
The fire called for immediate action, and those responsible for the management of the Club put their heads together to find their way out of the difficulty. They schemed; they planned; they put in days and months of solid work.
Gradually there appeared a new home, and members were glad, for they knew that each stone brought them nearer "home."
Now the building is complete, and though there is still a lot of minor interior things to be attended to, the work of reconstruction is so far completed that on Wednesday evening the members could have a house-warming in the real sense, and, amid great enthusiasm, the new clubhouse was declared "open."
Speech-making went by the board, although there were two admirable, appropriate, two-minute addresses. The members played bridge, and had supper. Home again!
Mr H.S.Newton Hodge, Captain of the Men's Section, welcomes the members, and expressed the hope that they would all be happy, and Captain George Bailey, Chairman of the Club, declared the new home open.
They owed a lot, he said, to all who had subscribed to make the new house possible, and the greatest credit was due to the ladies for their work on the furnishing and decorating,
Assured of Success.
" I believe our club is assured of success and I am happy to be associated with it," he said.
Special tributes must be paid to the Club's House Committee, and particularly to Mrs Newton Hodge, captain of the ladies' section, and Mrs Albert Morris, the Club Secretary, whose work in connection with the new structure has been as untiring as it has been ungrudgingly given. The House Committee was a very small one, with Mr H.J.Herbert making up an energetic trio. Credit is due, too, to Mr W.H.Biddle.
The members find it "a bit different" in their new quarters. The rooms are very much larger, and one of the additions is a bar lounge. There is an excellent dining room from which is possible to walk on to a terraced putting green (another innovation), and in the man's quarters, which are very much larger than formerly, there are about 200 lockers.
The ladies quarters, too, are impressive. They are tastefully decorated and admirably furnished. They, too, have a splendid locker room and much larger lounge.
Beside community singing there was individual items in a musical programme by Mr Mel Phillips, Mr Thorburn Frost, Mr Harry Hazell, Mr D.H. Thomas and Mrs Newton Hodge.
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