HISTORY: The Pedro Club was founded in 1929, by the President, Lady Eillot (see note below) and her friends, to provide a meeting place and social centre for young and old people in Hackney.
All through the devastation of the London blitz, the doors of the Pedro Club never closed, and after the war its role became more important than ever to a generation born of shattered homes and broken families. Since then the Clubs activities have been increased as far as possible, but space, helpers time and club resources have been stretched to the limit.
Every evening it provided facilities for its members to pursue all kinds of hobbies such as, canoeing, carpentry and electrical work for the boys, and for the girls needlework, cooking and everything to do with running comfortable homes. During the day, the club rooms are used by the Hackney Association of Workshops for the Elderly, where old aged pensioners are happily employed in useful occupations.
Many outside activites include club holidays and weekends on the shores of Lake Gwynant in Snowdonia and the Chiltern Forest camp at Marlow Buckinghamshire to which Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd, generously donated a hut, here Club members have helped to plant 6,000 trees for the Forestry Commission. The Pedro Club leads a full life and its ever growing popularity through the years proves it is providing something which its members appreciate and enjoy.
By 1965 the limited size and bad conditions of the Club premises had been a constant handicap, the Club was offered a better site by the London Borough of Hackney and plans were going ahead for building a larger premises, the total cost would be about 50,000 pounds of which the Greater London Council and the Ministry of Education generously agreed to contribute 75%, this left the Club to raise the remaining sum, as well as equip the new premises, a total of 15,000 pounds was needed to be raised by the Club.

Katherine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood
Date of Birth	15 January 1903
Family	half sister of Margot Asquith, married Walter Elliot MP
Education	educated abroad
Early career	farmer
Early political experience	Roxburghshire County Council (1946-75); Chairman, National Union of Conservative & Unionist Associations (1957); contested Glasgow Rutherglen (1958); UN delegate (1954, 1956, 1957)
Years in parliament	1958-94
Party	Conservative
Honours or titles	DBE (1958)
Death	3 January 1994