Welcome to The Athenaeum!

Following election at yesterday’s Main Committee meeting, we are delighted to welcome seven Proprietors and two Associates to the Club; Dan Cornforth, Philip Jones, Lee Schofield, Thomas and Briony Vogiatzis, Peter Davidson, Graham Spring , Patrick Rupert Cottrell and Keith Simpson. We wish them many happy years of Membership to our Club and look forward … Read more

Member Musings – Dancing

Yes, you can dance Scottish all over the world -and  I have joined classes in Alexandria, USA, the Blue Mountains Australia, Hong Kong and France.  And of course there are branches of the Royal Scottish Country Dancing Society(rscds.org) throughout the UK, including Liverpool.  I was lucky to get a coveted ticket for a ball in … Read more

May 2020 – Literature Group

We are delighted to continue to provide presentations from the Literature group, in lieu of their monthly meeting at the Club. This month’s has been prepared by Proprietor Jutta Hesketh, and is on the Argentinian writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Enjoy!

Member Monday #004

Every Monday we profile one of our Members. This week in we are joined by Proprietor 186, John Blain. As announced by the President last week, John has been appointed General Manager of the Club on an interim basis. Who are you? I am John Blain, I am a lifelong Evertonian, Chairman of the Everton … Read more

Tracing Your Share

Dear Member, Tracing your share-holders? During the present situation when ‘time’ seems to be the only item we have an excess of, we wondered if some of you might be interested in the attached thesis. Stephen located this on-line and the author has given her permission for us to circulate it – fortunately she attended … Read more

VE Day 75th Anniversary – May 8th 2020

The country will come together to celebrate VE Day 75 and remember the end of the Second World War in Europe this Friday (May 8th). The Athenaeum was due to mark the occasion with a lunch, but current events have made that impossible. Instead, we share the below message from our friends at SSAFA. SSAFA … Read more

Member Musing – Alas Alack

Last Burns’ night, I was invited to a friend’s to celebrate. During the pre-dinner drinks get-together, the hostess said that it was traditional to do an Address to the Lassies, and would I say an appropriate poem or something. I, of course, said ‘yes’. But spent the rest of the pre-drinking, the piping and eating, … Read more

Member Monday #003

Every Monday we profile one of our Members. This week in we are joined by Proprietor Stuart Lawrence. Who are you?  I am Stuart Lawrence. A mechanical engineer by first degree and now a business leader following a second degree in 2002. What is your greatest achievement?  Oddly perhaps, my greatest achievement has nothing to … Read more

The Corona Chronicles: Volume 6

Good day all, An interesting Chronicle today about what could have been. Yesterday evening a twitter user tagged the Club in a post of theirs, which led me to look through some of the older images of the Club, and subsequently, pictures of our previous premises on Church Street. I find with pictures, particularly older … Read more