Landport Liberal Club.
The original Landport Liberal Club was in this building until 1972. It them became the Royal Naval Old Comrades Club. Portsmouth City Council have approved the application from Ashbourne Assets and Investments Ltd to convert the former Royal Navy Old Comrades Club (R.N.O.C.C.) in Lake Road, Portsmouth to a mixture of 2 houses and 6 flats. Declining membership numbers prompted the club to sell the building and relocate to a smaller base.
28-11-1972 Portsmouth News
lady receiving the darts trophy as Pat Aldridge, standing next to her Kathy Collins
The gent with the sideburns is Sid Johns, a head of a print union, a JP, County Councillor, high up in the CIU and a very nice chap
Former President Fred Bishop and his wife
If you can name any of the people on the above photographs please contact me
 The site in 2016
From 1946 to 1976 the club was at 86 Lake Road, this building later became the Royal Naval Old Comrades Club and is still running today.
The Liberal Club moved to Staunton Street but closed in 1999 after a petitions to wind up.
In the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) Liverpool District Registry. No. 164 of 1999 In the Matter of LANDPORT LIBERAL CLUB and in the Matter of the Insolvency Act 1986 A Petition to wind up the above-named Company of Staunton Street, Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, presented on 23rd February 1999 by HM Customs and Excise Portsmouth, of 2nd Floor, Wingfield House, 316 Commercial Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 4TG, claiming to be a Creditor of the Company, will be heard at Liverpool District Registry, Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts, Derby Square, Liverpool, on Monday, 19th April 1999, at 10 a.m. (or as soon thereafter as the Petition can be heard). Any person intending to appear on the hearing of the Petition (whether to support or oppose it) must give notice of intention to do so to the Petitioner or its Solicitor in accordance with Rule 4.16 by 1600 hours on Friday, 16th April 1999. The Petitioner’s Solicitor is Lees Lloyd Whitley, 17-21 Price Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside L41 6JN. (Ref. 53819.) 12th March 1999.
The building was derelict for several years and then in the hands of the receiver. There had been a spate of serious fires there.
Many local musicians and DJ's performed in the club but details are no lost in time
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