Managing Committee Table
There was a time when every utility item was made with great skill and aesthetic beauty.
While many of these objects are lost to us in the Club, one major piece is still available – The Managing Committee table, the antiquity of which goes back to more than 100 years.
This wonderful antique table is made of Burma Teak with exquisite grains and whorls’. It is 11 feet long, 2.5 feet high and 2 feet wide. Imagine the size of the tree trunk, because it was cut from a single log! It is made up of 3 planks of a foot’s width each.
One can’t see a single nail in the entire table. The whole structure is held together with wooden ‘wedges’!
This table was probably a dining table, with room for 12 people. It has been polished to a fine sheen with melamine finish and holds
While many of these objects are lost to us in the Club, one major piece is still available – The Managing Committee table, the antiquity of which goes back to more than 100 years.
This wonderful antique table is made of Burma Teak with exquisite grains and whorls’. It is 11 feet long, 2.5 feet high and 2 feet wide. Imagine the size of the tree trunk, because it was cut from a single log! It is made up of 3 planks of a foot’s width each.
One can’t see a single nail in the entire table. The whole structure is held together with wooden ‘wedges’!
This table was probably a dining table, with room for 12 people. It has been polished to a fine sheen with melamine finish and holds
Pillar and Support Beam
As the second part of this month’s nostalgia picture, we bring to you the stately wooden
pillar and support beam which supports the stairway leading to the Ballroom situated above
the Billiard Room. The Club building which dates back more than 150 years has some
wonderful aspects of engineering excellence. The Stairway leading up to the Ballroom has a
set of wooden stairs. One leading to the President and Secretary’s Offices and the second
leading up to the Ballroom. This entire structure is supported by a single wooden Pillar and
some support from the walls.
The Pillar is 18.6 feet in length and 6 inches wide on each side. The Pillar in turn holds up the wooden Support Beam which runs across the entire stairway leading to the Ballroom.
This support beam is 28 feet in length and 6 inches on each side. Both the Pillar and Support Beam are made of a single piece of wood, without any jointing!
The cast iron railings which were painted over the years have lost some of their designs. It was with great difficultly we could clean-up one railing with the help of a blow torch to dislodge the paint work – it still remains
The Pillar is 18.6 feet in length and 6 inches wide on each side. The Pillar in turn holds up the wooden Support Beam which runs across the entire stairway leading to the Ballroom.
This support beam is 28 feet in length and 6 inches on each side. Both the Pillar and Support Beam are made of a single piece of wood, without any jointing!
The cast iron railings which were painted over the years have lost some of their designs. It was with great difficultly we could clean-up one railing with the help of a blow torch to dislodge the paint work – it still remains