Kelvin Grove's history started in 1925 when the company Western Province Sports Club was originally formed. In 1935 the Club had a total of 1755 members. Today, Kelvin Grove has approximately 7000 members using the facilities on offer.

A look at the membership list leads to the pleasant discovery that Kelvin is very much a family affair, and among our young and equally active members, particularly in the cricket and rugby fraternities, are a great many sons and grandsons of our older members. We hasten to add that there are just as many daughters, but (a) they don't play rugby or cricket, and (b) they have a disturbing habit of changing their names when they marry, so we don't always know.