| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. 22:07 - Jan 15 with 6941 views | Discodroids |
Those of a certain age on here will remember these places dotted in their legion all over the UK.
Working class peoples living in their concrete esso parrafin asphalt jungle council gaffs and prefabs could get together to escape the 24/7 knuckle duster of life and the slow motion riot of the 238 bus to the local injection moulding factory for their 8-4 shift , and have a few pints of Long life and a double diamond in the local labour/conservative/lib dem club .
I remember the East ham working mens club, ( now a block of flats) , Blokes in pringles and wexmans at the bar, Their women at the tables knocking back skol white top while the club secretary in his knock off Eton Rifle regimental blazer badge sculpted in bullion wire with hand-finished embroidery , was flogging raffle tickets for a beano to Thorpe bay to a pissed up joyus crowd. An organic collective of people who share a bond.
The word 'community' to me has been rendered down over the years i distilled into a saline nothingness.. imo Working mens clubs are at the heart of the 'community'. To me 'Community' means shared values and a shared background where we were spawned from, those shared hardships , those shared parameters of living in a gilded cage of the working class area you grew up in. Like our Grandads, nans, mothers and fathers that put the slog in during the week and then came together for a piss up at the weekend at the local working mans club.
Most of them are gone now. Flats, chicken shops and fu cking paddy powers with electronic roulette wheels have taken their place. Evil.
Well, today i joined one. These Dojo's of working class culture for good or bad are dying out.
I'd love to know who is a member of one on here. We should support them. I come from the East end so i don't know if they were as popular in west london as they were in the east..
I hope they are/were.
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| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 21:47 - Jan 17 with 570 views | perpignanR |
| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 13:01 - Jan 17 by W13R |
Was the Welsh Club also known as the Gwalia? |
Yes it was. They played in the Harlesden & district Sunday league along with the Legionaires club from Willesden. |  | | |
| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 22:06 - Jan 17 with 518 views | paulparker |
Great thread DD it’s bought up some loverly memories of being with my Dad and Grandad when they used to go to the British Legion in Greenford
Saturday nights my grandad would do his best Tony Bennett impression and sing about 4 or 5 numbers whilst some old dear played the old Joanna in the background
Being a lad I would wait for a few of the old boys to comeback from Rangers so I could steal a look at their programme whilst everyone in the family got legless
Sundays would be drinking until 2pm, then it was fags put out, pints supped so everyone could stand for the national anthem , halcyon days indeed
Living in Northampton we do have quite a few working man’s clubs still going the one near me closed though after covid, massive gaff it was, such a shame as it’s still vacant |  |
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| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 18:19 - Jan 18 with 361 views | plasmahoop |
Im a member of a con club in kent, and now ive moved to sussex ive joined the workingmans club and united services club. They are both the busiest places in the town and thetes loads going on there. Both are within five minutes walk away too, ive fallen on my feet | | | |
| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 18:29 - Jan 18 with 343 views | plasmahoop |
| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 07:51 - Jan 16 by Malintabuk |
What a thread and what memories.
As a miner in the East Kent coalfields our club was Betteshanger, what a place
On Sunday morning it use to open at 10am for the pit football teams, amazing how many supporters we got on a home match, who never actually saw the game
Then the Sunday lunch strippers... most were .... well let's just say experienced, and one day one of the lasses paid the cardinal sin of doing the floor.... she sat on one the lads laps and plonked here left breast into his beer.... pandemonium ensued, where teeth and snot was everywhere.... as her minders were taken apart by hairy @rsed miners
Then the Sunday mic session... old Harry or Ted crooning into the mic with Sinatra or Bennett numbers, forgetting half the words, and then getting, never mind the words Harry, just sing the song
Finally closing the proceedings with Ghost riders in the Sky.... great days
Think most miners clubs have morphed into something and glad to say mine is still going strong
https://camra.org.uk/pubs/betteshanger-social-club-betteshanger-142674
Went just before Christmas for a lunch for ex miners.... and so sad to see most are now gone, and those that are left, so old and frail. A generation apart [Post edited 16 Jan 7:54]
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Im pleased to hear this place is still going strong! I went there on a bank holiday weekend approaching 25 years ago for a bar billiards inter league day. What a piss up. All day drinking at its finest! I remember the beer was amazingly cheap and i had to behelped home.
My memories are vague, but i remember being impressed and moved by the history of the place. I think east kent ratger gets forgotten about as a mining place. Everyone always focuses on the north and assumes that as its in south east England its a wealthy area. But it certainly isnt | | | |
| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 22:52 - Jan 18 with 235 views | YorkRanger |
Play crib on a Thursday night at a recreation club close to me Disco. Alas no Double Diamond... |  | | |
| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 23:05 - Jan 18 with 218 views | Boston |
| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 18:19 - Jan 18 by plasmahoop |
Im a member of a con club in kent, and now ive moved to sussex ive joined the workingmans club and united services club. They are both the busiest places in the town and thetes loads going on there. Both are within five minutes walk away too, ive fallen on my feet |
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| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 23:13 - Jan 18 with 213 views | SydneyRs |
| Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs. on 13:01 - Jan 17 by W13R |
Was the Welsh Club also known as the Gwalia? |
Yes that's the one. | | | |
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