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Home > Personal Stories > Community Life > Working Men's Clubs
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Working Men's clubs are thriving centres of entertainment in north Sheffield and as such are key features of community life. They are places to go and play games, watch bands, take trips to the seaside, go ballroom dancing or simply chat over a pint. People turn out for the tombola religiously. The clubs are open seven nights a week and lunchtimes. Above all, the clubs were founded and are still managed and financed by local people. Click on the images to enlarge. |
1929 Bowling Trophy won by Wadsley Bridge Working Men's Club. Image reproduced by kind permission of Wadsley Bridge Working Men's Club. "Wadsley Bridge Club started just after First World War. And in those days, there was just like an army hut just inside main entrance and that was the Club. I remember going there with my grandfather. I should say with between two and three hundred in and it would be pretty full. This year I've been a member sixty-eight years. I joined the same month as I was eighteen. I used to have a drink of cider for tuppence hapenny (two and a half pence). In them days everything was hard work and you got members - pick and shovel in them days, no mechanical devices - to make the bowling green. And all work was done voluntary. When it started to deteriorate was during war period - when people called up for this second war. It were one of best greens in Sheffield." Jo Smedley Memory Leaves which might be of interest:
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