Eighty years is not really such a long time ago, as many Kelvin members who were around then will tell you. Many of them are still among the club's staunchest supporters, playing tennis, squash, swimming, dancing, dining as well as being the mainstay of the bowls and croquet sections.

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.