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THE BARN SOCIAL CLUB

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We went to dances at the Barn in Brookvale Road, Witton in the seventys.
There was a guy singing who looked like a slim Frank Ifield.
My favourite part was the TAXI QUICKSTEP. Women formed a queue and the men took the first in the queue and danced round the room once before dropping them off at the back of the queue, getting another from the front and so on.

It seemed that if you got a little cracker you would go round quite a few times reluctant to let go, if you got an ugly one you would drop them off at the first opportunity.

What makes you think I'm a typical man.
 
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:D Dave I went to the Barn... and what makes you think us girls didn't feel the same way about 'Good lookers and the others' :lol: :lol: :lol:

Chris :)
 
I've never met an ugly woman but I've met a lot of ugly blokes :wink:
 
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Nice one JerryD 8)

Used to go there myself & All the girls were really good looking, crikey even my sisters looked good,, well my mates thought so drooling so bad I had to punch one or two of em :twisted:

The canal was nearby if I recall it right, Maybe Dave dropped a brick by bargeing in on the Water Taxi so he was a bit wet & the girls gave him the old heave Oh :?: Shame he missed out on All them luvly Gals Eh :wink:
 
SUBSTANTIAL SUSPENSION

Blimey, One woman I danced with was an Ann Widdicombe look alike.
She had underwear made from parts of the Fourth Road Bridge, I could feel it through her blouse.

It made me quiver with fright, I got her back to the end of the queue quick sharpish.
 
I have been to the Barn many times and always enjoyed it, it won the best Social Club in the country award on a couple of occasions. For those of you who are new to the site on the 7th July we will be holding a Reunion for ex pupils of both Burlington Street and Upper Thomas Street Schools, all age groups welcome, we have the room from 7 p.m. until late and the entrance fee is only a pound.
 
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Was a member for years at the Barn and my family my Dad 1940s
I spent most of my time in the 1970s, when i came home from Cardiff where I was Commercial manager.
They Had a few Guest artists Jim Davison, Jim Bowen think the had Frank Ifield ( I remember you) we used to play snooker every Thursday evening
My two brother in laws still do it on Thursday evening.
 
BARN BOOKIE BUST

My brother ran the bookmakers office at the Barn for a while but it did'nt last long. He was the only bookmaker I've ever heard of who went bust.
 
Alf did you know the Perkins,and their daughter Joan. They were my in-law's next door neighbours in Amberley Grove. You could set your watch by the time they left home most nights to go to The Barn. :D
 
My Dad was from Barnsley and he never really lost his accent, when he came out of the Army after WW2 in 1946 he applied to be a member at The Barn and they turned him down. He believed it was because they could not understand his Barnsley accent and thought he was Polish.

He swore he would never go into any social club that would not accept an ex serving British soldier as a member and he never ever went into The Barn again !, nor have of any of us, his three children. Instead he used Pressesd Steel Fshers Social Club where he worked, the Ansells Club and a number of pubs in the area including, The Boars Head, The Church Tavern, The Grave Diggers and The Crossways.

He left us in 2008 just 5 weeks short of 90 years old, I like to think he is drinking with his old mates in a Pub somewhere above us now.
 
Zak the Barn have always been like that even till a few years ago and the rigmarole we had just to get in and in the end we couldn't be bothered Regards the other pubs mentioned there's only one I have not visited and that is the Crossways. Your dear dad lived a full long life didn't he. Jean.
 
Hi Jean,

Yes he did ok for a lad from the slums of Barnsley his Dad was a coal miner.
Dad came to Birmingham when he was 16 in 1934 because his Mom (she lived to be 94) begged him not to go down the mines. He did not know anybody at all and lived in a bed sit on Soho Road run by a Scottish woman who he said treated him like her own son. Then he met my Mom who lived with her parents at 292 Dovedale road, and he joined the Army in 1939 which he said were amongst the best days of his life, always seemed a strange thing to say considering we were at war and he served in the Infantry in Europe. Mom and Dad got married at the Church on Brackenbury Road (now demolished) on the 6th of June 1942. After the war they lived on Lucas's Sports Ground (then called Sunny View Camp !), Kenmuir Road Sheldon, Maxted Road in the prefabs and finally in Watney Grove opposite the old College Arms Pub for the last 53 years of his life.

We lost Mom in 1995 so he lived on his own for nearly 14 years and would only accept help from me and his other son's, he was a very single minded man and "as tough as old boots" as they say. He worked for 35 years as an Inspection Senior Foreman at Pressed Steel Fishers working shifts to look after us kids and was a good and generous Dad who liked nothing more than to go and have 3 or 4 pints of bitter with his old mates. The problem with living to be so old was that all of his friends had been dead for the last 15 years of his life.
 
DAVE BRICK said:
We went to dances at the Barn in Brookvale Road, Witton in the seventys.
There was a guy singing who looked like a slim Frank Ifield.
My favourite part was the TAXI QUICKSTEP. Women formed a queue and the men took the first in the queue and danced round the room once before dropping them off at the back of the queue, getting another from the front and so on.

It seemed that if you got a little cracker you would go round quite a few times reluctant to let go, if you got an ugly one you would drop them off at the first opportunity.

What makes you think I'm a typical man.
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If it was a Tuesday or a Saturday in the late 70's that you went to the Barn then the singer in the band's name was Jim.
The other band members were Maureen and Dick (husband and wife) and Roger.

re the Tai dance, the ladies were not so lucky - if you got a partner with two left feet but who thought he was Fred Astaire or made you feel it was YOU that was getting the steps wrong - then it wasn't so easy to get rid of him ;-D !!
 
My memories of the Barn were sitting in the car with pop and crisps while my dad took my grandfather (SamPendry} for a Sunday lunchtime drink....1963/67.
Sam and Beatrice lived for many years in Wyreley Rd..Witton....and i remember seeing those nice vegies grown on the allotments.
 
My memories of the Barn was their football team. As a kid, my dad used to take me every Sunday afternoon to watch them at parks and recs like The Black Patch and Perry Common Rec, and sometimes he would run the line. They used to play in claret, and I can remember a couple of their names and nicknames. Harry Vein was a huge bloke who played in goal, but was very agile for his size. Dave Lander played right half, and there was Polly and Monty, but I don't recall their real names. They were a pretty useful side at that time.
 
Hi all
i remember going to the barn concerts in 1958 on a sunday night.it cost a shilling to get in.
They always drew the tote just prior to the show starting.even way back then the total
payout was around £200.happy days
 
Grandad, Tom Pugh used to see to the allotments and nan Beatrice (Beattie) used to make the sandwiches for the interval on a Saturday night, I used to help her, can't remember how old I was, probably about 13, the ham smelled and tasted lovely
 
Denise you are making me feel hungry. When did your nan and granddad move to the house close to the Barn Social c Club?.
 
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