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On the ground floor were three largish rooms, each with a
marble mantelpiece, gas lighting and Venetian blinds at the
windows. The kitchen was deemed to be "capital” and the
house was "cellared throughout with cemented floors and was
well lit".

Upstairs, there were four more rooms as well as a
bathroom, which all led off from the landing, at the end of
which was a "small compartment with a coloured glazed door

opening out on to the top of the stone portico".
As such, The Lauriston served Mr Lloyd

from 1887 till he moved out and the house
was sold to the Chorlton Liberal Association,
who opened the building as The Chorlton
Liberal Club in the October of 1897.

It wasn’t the first club the Liberals had had
here, that one was on Wilbraham Road but the
new one on Manchester Road was more,
"commodious and suitable for the purpose".**

Its opening was greeted, "with the hope
that the club would strengthen Liberalism in
Chorlton-cum-Hardy,” and membership figures

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