Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Chris Smith]

I used to go to Northfield Cons Club every Friday lunchtime when I worked at Kalamazoo.  The very clandestine reason for doing so?  I wanted a lunchtime drink and it was the closest place that sold it.  What a bastard.

When I was doing my A Levels I had a job there as a drinks waiter at the Friday night bingo. Sounds grand but it was because the bar in the function room was so small they couldn’t cope with queues. Seemed identical to any other social club I have ever been in and I got the impression that it was location and cheap booze rather than ideology that drove the clientele.

[kippaxvilla2]

Agree - hardly the most affluent of areas of Northfield and that is saying something!

[Brend'Watkins]

The Erdington Conservitive Club showed the play off final and had Gary Shaw and Tony Morley in attendance so a few friends have informed me. Of those that I know who drink there none are tories. I hate the place for one main reason, it's shit.

[Dr Butler]

I used to go to the Chelmsley Wood  Conservative club with a Uncle ....neither of us are Tories....

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[Sexual Ealing]

Why is nobody talking about my relationship with Robert Peston?

[brian green]

You said you and he "nodded".  If it helps the topic along I think you are a tank topped bum boy.*

*copyright Johnson, B.

[Gary Penrice]

Agree - hardly the most affluent of areas of Northfield and that is saying something!

I'm sure the residents of Austin Village would be over the moon with that comment!

[Sexual Ealing]

You said you and he "nodded".  If it helps the topic along I think you are a tank topped bum boy.*

*copyright Johnson, B.

You've got my vote Brian.

[Chris Smith]

Agree - hardly the most affluent of areas of Northfield and that is saying something!

I'm sure the residents of Austin Village would be over the moon with that comment!

Austin Village is just an invention for people to avoid revealing that they live in Turves Green.

[Toronto Villa]

Is Austin Village a suburb of West Midland Village?

[dave shelley]

You really need a different hat to go with each monocle, the look won't be complete otherwise.

My members club of choice is still the Small Heath Amateur Gardeners'.

Is that the one on Hob Moor Road?

[TopDeck113]

The Lancashire village where I now live owes its development to the cotton industry but because the principal mill owners were Methodist there were no pubs in the actual village (but two cheek-by-jowl immediately outside the boundary).   The exception to alcohol being sold inside the village was at the Conservative or Liberal Clubs.  Whilst the buildings still exist, they are no longer political clubs.  However, an old-timer once told me that many residents used to members of both solely as a means of ensuring they could get a pint. 

[cheltenhamlion]

You live in Manchester?

[cdbearsfan]

You really need a different hat to go with each monocle, the look won't be complete otherwise.

My members club of choice is still the Small Heath Amateur Gardeners'.

Is that the one on Hob Moor Road?

Yes.

For clarification: I'm not really a member there, I just like the initials.

[Gary Penrice]

Agree - hardly the most affluent of areas of Northfield and that is saying something!

I'm sure the residents of Austin Village would be over the moon with that comment!

Austin Village is just an invention for people to avoid revealing that they live in Turves Green.

Ah Turves Green.....famous for creating legends at it's Boys' School & The Jolly Fighter public house!