We hope you will find all the information you require about playing squash as a member of one of the oldest sports clubs in London. Squash has been played at Finchley Manor since the late '60s. Since then all our courts and changing facilities have been upgraded and modernised. Today we have four first-class courts, modern changing rooms, regular club nights, active ladder leagues and a large and growing membership. Squash at Finchley Manor shares facilities with a large and vibrant Tennis section, and the club has a gymnasium as well as a fully licensed bar.

The club has been in North London for a long time: it was founded as a tennis club in 1881 and then in the 1960's two squash courts were built, later increased to four as the squash boom took off. Since then the club has expanded further, converting nine grass tennis courts to all-weather surfaces in the 1980's, adding a gym section in the 1990's and increasing social activity generally over these years with bigger and better bar facilities. We also have a full-time manager, Lisa Smith, to oversee and cater for a growing membership.

Competitive squash in the early days at Finchley Manor used to run on two fronts. We ran two or three men's teams in what used to be called the "Abbey Middlesex league". We also ran a men's team in the Cumberland Cup, the premier competition for top-class London teams. Because Finchley Manor was among the first clubs to develop and support team squash in London, we attracted some of the finest players of the day. Names such as Bruce Prescott, Gary Casey, Paul Carter, Jonathan Hibbs and Glenn Bollington featured in Finchley Manor teams, ably captained, among others, by Cliff Gudgeon and Steve Jackson. 

Since then, like most other squash clubs, we have had to adjust to the changing pattern of team squash, as some of the young tigers of the sixties and seventies have turned into crafty foxes of the nineties and the millennium. However, on balance, we probably have more members playing team squash than we had in the seventies, although whether the overall standard has improved since then would be a nice question. But there can be no doubting present-day enthusiasm for playing competitively - that is as high as ever it was.