Does anyone remember the Upper Heeley Working Mans Club ?

There's a huge thread on WMCs somewhere on here, UHWMC is mentioned on it.

There is now a nursing home, on the junction of Gleadless Road and Cat Lane, where the club used to be.

(whereabouts in Perth, WA are you, tourist? I have an uncle close by there, in Kalamunda)

There's a huge thread on WMCs somewhere on here, UHWMC is mentioned on it.

There is now a nursing home, on the junction of Gleadless Road and Cat Lane, where the club used to be.

(whereabouts in Perth, WA are you, tourist? I have an uncle close by there, in Kalamunda)


Your uncle is in the hills, east of Perth, i am in the northern Suburbs about 1 hour from him. Have you been to Perth . Where do you live ?????

Not been to Perth, no. I would like to go, but as I am a "flying-o-phobic" (lol ;) ) I doubt I'd manage a 24/28 -odd hour flight over to Australia. (I'm freaked out at the idea of a 2-hour flight to the continent, a trip to Barcelona, which I'd like to do next year. I reckon I will need serious counselling! lol

I'm still in sunny Sheffield-on-sea (lol) I'm in Nether Edge/Sharrow, just by Psalter Lane (If you can remember your Sheffield geography?)

Does anyone remember the Upper Heeley Working Mans Club ?
I remember the Upper Heeley WMC
I lived on Fitzroy Road just down the road from the club and me and my brother Alan use to go on the club trips every year. My father was a life member of the club, and also use to sing on the clubs in the 50's. Don't no if you know but the site of the club is now a senior citizens home, but Cat Lane is still there.

I remember the Upper Heeley WMC
I lived on Fitzroy Road just down the road from the club and me and my brother Alan use to go on the club trips every year. My father was a life member of the club, and also use to sing on the clubs in the 50's. Don't no if you know but the site of the club is now a senior citizens home, but Cat Lane is still there.

I seem to remember mentioning the nursing home in post #2

As said in another post,my Mum worked there in the early 70s & my Dad was a member.

I was a member what seems like centuries ago, in the 70's.
As kids in the early 60's we used to go on the seaside trips, 7/6 spending money, and sandwiches I think, seemed like a fortune :thumbsup:

i should remember it i got engaged there new years eve packed to the rafters 1982 i saw chubby brown there £3 to get in wot a good club

my grandad played billiards for the club, only man to win the marshal cup 3 times.

My huband and I saw Jerry Dorsey there before he became Englebert Humperdinck. No one paid any attention to him as it was Bingo night. I remember that we had to get someone to sign us in as we were not members, my husband is TT and my limit was one shandy !!!!.

i should remember it i got engaged there new years eve packed to the rafters 1982 i saw chubby brown there £3 to get in wot a good club

I also saw Chubby Brown there on a saturday afternoon in the early/mid eighties, what a cracking afternoon that was. No-one wanted to leave in the end.

Anyone remember Len Miller off Norfolk Park ? Used to be a painter and decorater by day ,working for Bradburys ,then would transform into a tuxedo ,with dicky-bow outfit - then catch the single-deck 8 or 9 outside his house ,down to the club . I think he was the compare or similar but also gave the club a lick of paint when pushed!He was around his mid 50"s - I would be talking early 80"s.He was a real character. He used to live in the Vic Hallams nearest to City Road ,just after the nursing home.

I played snooker there a few times over the years. If I remember correctly the billiard room was upstairs and you had to access it via some stairs at the side of the concert room stage. We had a guy who played for us who was always skint and we usually ended up buying his beer on snooker nights. One night when we played at the Upper Heeley club he announced that he had a fiver and he would get the first round in (those were the days, a round for a fiver and still some change) He went to the bar and bought the round and proceeded to carry the beer upstairs on a tray. As he was about to enter the billiard room there was a step down which he didn't know about. He went full length out on the floor and spilled the contents all over the place. Not a drop left in any glass. He promptly picked himself up brushed himself down and without a flicker of emotion on his face said "can anyone lend me a fiver". A classic moment. Sadly the guy died a couple weeks ago. He was a real character.
Well the story is true I just hope I have remembered the correct club.

Iused to go on the trips to seaside each year with this club. my grandad and uncles were all members. We had to line up and be counted afore we got on the charabanc

Does anyone remember the Upper Heeley Working Mans Club ?

I used to deliver their papers in the late 80s.

Does anyone remember the Upper Heeley Working Mans Club ?
i remember the one on broadfield road played them at darts many a time in the 50.s a 60.s