The Youth Club
There was a youth club held in a building across the carpark from Minster Primary School. I think this building was called the Leisure Centre, it also hosted Brownies and Guides. For a few pee we would spend hours playing Adam and the Ants records on a tiny ancient record player and jump around on the torn worn fake leather furniture and spend the rest of our money on shandy bass or crisps. Living on Monkton Road, we took the short cut to the youth club up the "bumpy way" skirting Spanton's fields to Molineux Road and the school.
I was really jealous of my older brother who went to cubs in an old stone building down near the Church. They built an assault course in the hall with ropes and crash mats and had a great time. Brownies was nothing by comparison!
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Minster Youth club was great, it was run By Frank Gillet and his wife, and Trevor who I recall had wavy red hair. My time there was a little before Susie's whose dad Dr Southall was my GP in the villiage. I attended Minster Youth Club between 1975 and 1978 with my friends Ian Rickles & Martin Jones. The facilities included two table tennis tables, a snack and drinks bar, a TV room and a snooker room with one three quater sized snooker table. Outside we regularly played football in the car park where I clashed in a hard tackle with an old friend Brian Bell (Dinger) who broke his arm as a result. Many of the village kids from several generations including my sister (then Christine Bean) and her friends had real fun and spent many hours in the youth club and have a lot to thank the volunteers who ran the place for. I also remember the ATC next to the old Village Hall which as great fun and a worthwhile experience, and two of my own sons now attend at Manston.
Comment from Andrew Bean on Tuesday, 1st June 2010.