Anyone remember Darfield Liberal Club

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  1. sadbrewer

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    A mate of mine has just acquired a 1d beer token with Darfield Liberal Club inscribed on it..I knocked about Darfield forty odd years ago but the club doesn't spring to mind,can anyone enlighten us?
     
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    I'll ask me dad at the match tomorrow he will know being born and bred etc.
     
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    weren't it on school street ?
     
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    I haven't but it sounds like my kind of place!! Darfield/Liberal? Liberal/Darfield? I bet it weren't open long....

    Mollycat'll know, he's the Darfield expert.
     
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    Is it that one on end of School Street, more or less across from Cross Keys pub?
    Think they refer to it as "village club" these days.

    Just my guess.....
     
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    It was/is on School Street opposite what was/is the old horse riding stables, (can't remember the name of the man that owned them), across from what was Maurice and Fred's shop, two characters that EVERYBODY in Darfield knew about. They used to goad schoolkids to swear.. "come on, say Bugger..." once when we went in ! Ah memories !
    The Liberal club was/is the big stone built building with the open car park on the corner of Church Street and School Street.
     
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    Yep, that's the one I was describing in above post.
     
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    Thought that was the Conservative Club or is that further up?
     
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    School street has the cross keys on the corner, the village club which is referred to as the legion by locals including myself :) and then you have the cons club up the road across from the cricket club.
     
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    Aye that's what I always remember it being called the legion but I don't recall a liberal club anywhere.
     
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    Wasn't the W.M.C on darfield road at cudworth formally the liberal club?
     
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    I think I've made a mistake here ladies.... as soon as you started talking about the Legion then I did a double take.
    I think you are right, that big stone building on the end of School Street near Maurice and Freds was the Legion... not the Liberal.
    Now I don't know where the Liberal was.... if anywhere.
    Doh.
     
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    both the same
     
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    As far as my Aunty (87) knows, who is Darfield born and bred. The legion was always the club on the Cross keys pub end of school street. She went there aged 7 in 1934 as my grandfather took over as the landlord. She cannot recall a liberal club anywhere the Cons Club being at the other end. There goes another story as 95 percent of the members were labour but it had two snooker tables!

    The old cross keys pub used to be the old rectory where the home guard had their HQ during the war and then became pub. Long since gone and new pub built. Do bsons shop was a beer off owned by Camplejohns who were big churchgoers. Big horse stables opposite CK with horses brought over from Ireland to be trained. Church school and reading room plus cricket club all there so this was the hub of Darfield in those days...how things have changed.
     
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