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    The Club
    The Club
    The Club
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    The Club

    By Brian Leon Lee

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    A Working Men’s Club is in Financial trouble. The Committee have to convince the members to agree to their bold plan to avoid imminent closure. The deadline for agreement has to be made that night but how will the vote go? A humorous short story of how a club in desperate trouble hopes to find a way of surviving.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Leo Lee
    Release dateJun 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370914975
    The Club
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    Brian Leon Lee

    The author was born in Manchester. On leaving school, a period in accountancy was followed by a teaching career in Primary Education. Several years of telling his own stories to his two young children, when on camping holidays, led to the development of his many story characters. Now retired, living in South Yorkshire

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      The Club - Brian Leon Lee

      The Club

      Brian Leon Lee

      Published by Brian Leon Lee

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      Copyright 2017 Brian Leon Lee

      Cover by Brian Leon Lee

      Copyright 2017

      The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      All rights reserved.

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      ‘Can we come to order. I say, can we make a start. We’re fifteen minutes late as it is.’

      The Chair of Harlston WMC, Yorkshire, Dave Carpenter (ex overman at the Harlston pit) banged his pewter pint tankard on the table-top, forgetting that he had just had a refill, and spilt a good mouthful onto his notes.

      ‘Shit, look what you’ve made me do.’

      Loud guffaws echoed in the big concert room.

      ‘Tonight’s emergency meeting called by the club committee has a quorum, so we are legit,’ he said as he looked at the tables set out in front of him and his officers for the meeting, most of which were empty.

      ‘Steady, Dave,’ called out Budd Rackette, a retired miner. His hearing had declined years ago and he spoke without realizing that he usually deafened those sat near him.

      ‘Tha’ knows that you haven’t paid for that, so there’s no need to wash table top with some of it.’

      More guffaws from the floor.

      Dave grinned and dabbed at the spilt beer with a tissue, before taking a gulp of his drink.

      ‘Okay; now I have your attention I want to say that this is not a happy situation for our club. In fact, to coin a phrase, we’re up to our necks in it.’

      The members suddenly went quiet.

      There had been rumours. There are always rumours in villages but the tone of the chairman went home.

      Hands reached for drinks. One or two chairs scraped the floor as their occupants shuffled in anticipation of bad news.

      The Chairman looked to one side and pointed to the club treasurer, Fred Notte, (Ex Pit manager’s assistant).

      ‘You will remember or at least most of you will, that last year Fred loaned the club six thousand pounds of his own money to pay for the repair and refurbishing of our snooker table and lighting, damaged by a visiting team of so called lady snooker players.’

      ‘Yesh, I certainly do,’ mumbled Wilf Caul (ex lamp-man at the pit), from the far side of the table, where other committee members sat. He had, as usual, forgotten to put his top set of teeth in for the meeting.

      He took off his pebble like glasses

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