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Chapter III: Wars, Interruptions, and Hannibal The English Pell Mell Club, like so many venerable institutions, has always insisted that it exists above the fray of politics and war. Unfortunately, politics and war have never quite returned the courtesy. Over the past two centuries, the Club’s history has been punctuated by interruptions ranging from the … Read more
Chapter II The Early Years and the Continental Influence If Chapter I was the birth of the Club, Chapter II may be considered its adolescence , a period of enthusiasm, experimentation, and the occasional international incident. Having established a home just off Pall Mall, the founding members soon discovered a pressing need for variety. This … Read more
Readers, it is your lucky day. Next year a new Chronicle of the English Pell Mell Club will be published in a small limited edition. However you can read the chapters here as they appear. Published by the Committee of the English Pell Mell Club With the Gracious Patronage of Pimlico Wilde, Fine Art Dealers … Read more
Just off Pall Mall lies the home of the English Pell Mell Club. The ground is not so much a sports venue as it is a small fragment of another century, preserved between stuccoed façades like a pressed flower between the pages of a Roman history book. It is here that a select band of … Read more
Pell Mell is not the sporting force it was a few centuries ago, but there are still pockets of the country where it is more popular than football, soccer and spin the Trencher combined. Pell Mell captain Rory Spittoon commented, “This is wonderful news, better even than the birth of my fourteenth daughter. With Pimlico … Read more