Keswick’s Rugby Club’s ambitious Big Build project continues at pace and the new clubhouse is starting to emerge from what is currently a shell clad in scaffolding.
The bulldozers rolled into the club’s Davidson Park ground in May and since then the foundations have been laid, steel framework erected and a start made on the block work.
Ahead of the clubhouse’s demolition all the required internal fixtures, along with the club’s trophies, were stripped out by volunteers and put into storage.
The £1.9m Big Build will see a new elevated clubhouse constructed along with the creation of additional car parking facilities. The new building will provide a bar and viewing space on the ground floor and changing rooms and a gym at the first floor level. Access ramps and steps would link to the car parking areas and the pitches.
The push towards a new elevated clubhouse was a response to a series of flooding episodes, most memorably in 1985, 2005, 2009 and 2015, that had seen various levels of water swamping the old clubhouse causing major clean up exercises.
