I’ve been working a bit on Eddie Clarke’s mid-Century published works and have been trying to get a handle on the “Albany Club” at which he worked in the early 1950s.
This club seems to have been located at 3 Savile Row, which you may recognize as the address of the Beatles’ Apple Records!
The Albany Club seems to have been a sporty place. There’s a bunch of police blotter stuff in 1953 about a high profile raid for gambling. I’m not going deep on that, but here’s one from the Evening Standard, October 21, 1953:
The club seems to have finally gone kaput a couple years later (Daily Telegraph, November 3, 1955):
