The Newcastle Club is an oasis in the middle of Newcastle offering old-fashioned traditions of service, courtesy, comfort and charm, whilst meeting the needs of contemporary life in this fast moving world. Whilst the club is situated within the central business district, the view across Newcastle Harbour gives members an opportunity to relax and enjoy the beauty and fascination of a busy working port.
The atmosphere of the club is elegant yet relaxed, sophisticated yet friendly, and is viewed as a home-from-home by many of its members. The club is on terms of reciprocity with many clubs world-wide, and it welcomes their members to use our facilities. Click here to download our Reciprocal Clubs list.
Whilst the Newcastle Club is a private club, open only to members, guests to this web site are invited to access information about the Club such as its history, facilities of our historic Clubhouse. In addition guests will be able to access our function packages and menus. If you wish to contact the Club, please refer to the Contact Us section of the web site.
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Certain types of Club are typical of the British tradition. The Newcastle Club is a characteristic product of that tradition. The member or visitor who enters its doors could not mistake it for anything other than it is. There is the solid dignity, the restrained air of permanence, the maintenance of standards long established but elsewhere slipping and the members unchanging yet ever replaced. The Club has been fortunate in leadership which has ever thought in advance of the demands of the moment and which is handing on to new members fine buildings, permanent furnishings and equipment and habits and customs adapted to those who accept leadership in the Community. Club standards whether at cards or at the bar, have been carefully controlled by successive Committees; if membership is now more widely based the standards of behaviour and club comradeship have been upheld. The Club has been more than a social meeting place for a limited section of masculine population, it has exercised real influence and offered distinctive leadership in the Newcastle area and has acted as interpreter of Newcastle conditions to visitors interstate and from overseas. Long may it continue, independent, prosperous and invigorating.
Excerpt from 1885 – 1960 History of the Newcastle Club, by Professor James Auchmuty, foundation Vice Chancellor of the University of Newcastle, NSW |
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