WOODHORN Colliery Club
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Description
Working class community down time. Bliss of a sort. I remember being in places like this with school friends' families on the odd weekend from when I was about fourteen through twenty. Smoke filled, usually pretty dark with lots of hubbub of conversation drowned out by laughter and the bright lights in the corner as the 'turn's came on and did their act. Usually queues of men in over large suits, some with flat caps, waiting for drinks at the bar in the centre of the longest wall of the room. The places always seemed surreal, but then my folks barely EVER went out to even a pub except to pick me up from work after I was 18, so being the confines of a working mens' club was as alien as the surface of the moon to me. By the odd occasion when I was older these places at weekends seemed truly otherworldly distant - I'd lived in Chicago briefly by then and even being in the Northumberland seemed a wild displacement from my by then 'reality' of the world ouitside where I grew up. -
Owner
J Mark Dodds [a shadow of my future self] -
Source
Flickr (Flickr) -
License
What does this mean? Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
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Further information
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99456529@N00/3449352604/
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 7 years, 3 months ago
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Picture Taken: Unknown -
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