Friends of Accrington Conservative Club

04/02/2025

Accrington Conservative Club, Majestic Ballroom over the years. 1966, 2008, 2014

It had the largest sprung wooden dance floor in the country. 💃 🕺

23/10/2024

A rare and early view of the Conservative Club in its prime and the rest of Cannon Street.

Take part in our AR Enlighten Trail this Friday and Saturday! 📱

The visual history AR Trail will provide a historical journey, where you can explore historic images of Accrington through your mobile phones, simply by scanning the QR codes outside our heritage buildings 👀

🗓️ Fri 25th & Sat 26th October
⏰ 5pm – 9pm
📍 Accrington Town Centre

Learn more on our website ⬇️

https://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/enlighten/

Hyndburn Borough Council Light Up the North

19/11/2023

Thank you to everyone who Liked or Followed the page recently.

There's been a recent resurgence of interest in the Accrington Conservative Club of late, possibly since it went up for sale, still as a Listed building but with planning permission previously obtained for flats.

Please continue to Like & Share so word gets out about the existence of this page for all those interested in this topic, both the history and the fate of what was one of Accrington's greatest buildings.

04/11/2023

Thank you to all the new members who began following this page recently.

The Accrington Conservative Club is back up for sale for £175,000 with the planning permission which was obtained several years ago in order to convert it into multiple small flats, incorporating the still Listed facade that remains.

To restore this building to what it was, would cost between £5m-£10m if only someone had the money and vision to restore our civic pride, built in 1890 and the largest Conservative Club in the country.

https://www.taylorweaver.co.uk/hyndburn/19-cannon-street?fbclid=IwAR0UqP8edKfWR0aTUfcjD38vCUkuw-9g58IVkoVaS7IYPSG0v-tJ1En5Pt8

Development site extending to 0.216 acres. Competitively priced. Planning consent for apartment led development scheme.

18/05/2022

6 years on, I still can't believe it every time I drive past that this beautiful Listed building and key part of our Victorian heritage (built in 1890) was left to rot, catch fire, and is now still a hole in ground. It was a real asset to the town and could have helped shape its regeneration.

The rules around Listed buildings often just result in their demise rather than anything positive if it's uneconomic or no use can be found to preserve it completely "as is".

19/05/2021

Hard to believe it is 5 years since we lost our beautiful Conservative Club. It was the largest one in the country, built in 1890.

Shameful neglect and a refusal to take control of the decaying situation over a decade led to this day in 2016.

The council should have purchased it in 2006 when it was on the market and found a way to get Wetherspoons to buy it as they were interested in restoring and using the building (as they have with other historic building in need of a change of use). However, it was simply too expensive for Wetherspoons to justify. Such a move would have transformed the town, but instead the building is now lost forever.

02/12/2020

Latest view of the facade, given the clearance going on to the rear on the site at the moment. The facade is still a listed building as it survived the fire, so presume it cannot be touched, but must be incorporated into a new building.

04/06/2020

An old postcard of Cannon Street with the Majestic Ballroom of the Conservative Club on the right-hand side. Early 1900s.