Balfour Institute Liverpool card membership pass 1898- Boys club – Interesting ephemera
Cloth covered card with internal printed paper  91x60mm folded
From the National Archives (Liverpool Record Office): The Balfour Institute in Smithdown Road was opened at the end of 1884 as a Boys’ Club, initiated by the Minister of the Earle Road Presbyterian Church. The Institute moved to its purpose-built home in Smithdown Road in 1890 and it comprised educational, library and recreational facilities.
Alexander Balfour (1824-1886) was  Liverpool shipping magnate and philanthropist – more research needed but it looks as if he endowed this boys’ club, as he did other orphanages etc in Liverpool.
