The Castle Club is a

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former school at Broomhouse Lane,

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, London. It was built in 1855 in the

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style, and the architect was Horace Francis. It was formerly the Eight Feathers Club, and was originally a school. It was built as the "Elizabethan

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" and paid for by

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, the grandson of

MP, chairman of the

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. It was named in honour of Sulivan's wife Elizabeth, the younger sister of the Prime Minister

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. It later became a school for tubercular children run by the LCC and then a youth club.

References

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