The Royal Ipoh Club is now 113 years old. It may have been established much earlier than 1895 but records of its history were lost during the Japanese Occupation during World War 2.

The premise was used by the Japanese Imperial Army as a laundry house for the officers living at the nearby St. Michael’s Institution. It is claimed that even the Club’s pride, the original “Long Bar” was used as fuel for the laundry. However, the age of the Royal Ipoh Club was fixed by its Management Committee in 1972, based on the establishment of one of the oldest British companies, Osborne and Chapel International, in this historical City That The Tin Built. The Management Committee could only guess and agree on the year as Osborne and Chapel was established about that time.