Some History of Hawarden Tennis Club.
Our beginning...
On the 1st May 1927, Hawarden Tennis Club was officially opened in its present grounds at Clonlee Drive.  It is to Miss Walker, Headmistress of a Private School known locally as Miss Walker’s School and which later was to flourish into Bloomfield Collegiate, that credit for the formation of the Club must be given.

In 1924 she acquired the use of four grass courts for her pupils in what was then Sandown Park, the home of Sandown Football Club, and which is now the site of Strandtown School.  Parents and their friends were permitted the use of the courts during the following two summers.  During this period it was decided to acquire their own grounds and Pavilion, and it was Miss Walker and Mr Burton, Hawarden’s first President, who acquired the lease of our present grounds and contracted the landlord to construct a wooden Pavilion.

The Club’s name was taken from the name of the large house in which Miss Walker’s Private School was first situated and it is believed that the previous owner had named it after Prime Minister Gladstone’s country house.  Originally, three tarmacadam courts were laid but, in 1949, these were replaced by “En-Tout-Cas” red dust courts.

With the Club well established, a long lease on the grounds was then purchased in 1953.
...and, as they say, the rest is history.