Conservative Club

Deanshanger Conservative Club

In 1889, it was proposed that Deanshanger should have a Conservative Club.  It was estimated that the building would cost £380 and Lord Penrhyn, who lived at Wicken Park (now Akeley Wood Junior School in Wicken), promised to contribute £200 towards the costs.  The building was completed in 1889 and the official opening took place on 17th April 1890.

 

 

 


An extract from Buckingham Express - Saturday 27 April 1889

Described as a Club but also known as the Conservative Room or Conservative Hall.


Between 1940 and 1943 the Conservative Hall was requisitioned and used by the Holloway County School that had been evacuated from Islington to Towcester.
Other villages in the area had buildings used as school rooms.