CIU, WMC and privately-owned clubs

This is an incomplete list of the Working Mens’ Clubs, privately-owned clubs (that were clearly not nightclubs, obviously) and clubs under the CIU banner in the borough. Let me know if you know of any missing ones. As before,

RED CLUBS are now closed.

GREEN CLUBS have undergone a change of name but are still open.

BLUE CLUBS are open.

BARROW HILL MEMORIAL CLUB; Station Road, Barrow Hill. BRIMINGTON CLUB; High Street, Brimington CHESTERFIELD BRSA SPORTS & WELFARE CLUB, Station Road, Hollingwood CLUB CHESTERFIELD; Chester Street, Ashgate Formerly the Chesterfield Miners’ Welfare HADY WMC; Houldsworth Drive, Chesterfield HASLAND WMC; Hampton Street, Hasland. MASTIN MOOR MW; Renishaw Road, Mastin Moor. NEW WHITTINGTON FAMILY CLUB, Stone Lane, New Whittington Popularly known as the Top Club. NEW WHITTINGTON SOCIAL INSTITUTE, High Street, New Whittington Popularly known as the Bottom Club. NEWBOLD WMC; Thirlmere Road, Newbold. OLD WHITTINGTON MW; Station Lane, Old Whittington. POOLSBROOK MINERS WELFARE STAVELEY MINERS WELFARE, Market Street, Staveley VICTORIA CLUB & INSTITUTE; Sheffield Road, Whittington Moor. TOP CLUB, the; Stone Lane, New Whittington. May once have been an official name for the New Whittington Family Club, above. TROUGHLEE CLUB, The; Troughbrook Road, Hollingwood. Other clubs: BRAMPTON MANOR, Old Road, Brampton. Formerly the Squash Club. A health club, primarily, where I think you can still go in for a few healthy beers. CHESTER'S, Sheffield Road, Newbold Moor. Formerly Geoff's Club. A peculiarly thin place on the inside, that might once have been a working men's club. I haven't been in since the name-change, and it is possible that the place might be more deserving now of a listing on the pub pages. CONSERVATIVE CLUB, The; Marsden Street, Chesterfield. Given the general distaste for everything Thatcherite round here it is little wonder that this place packed up around the same time as the local Tories lost all their councillors, votes and credibility. The only real loss attached was that of a good snooker room and a big upstairs band room. It became “Marsden’s” and attracted an openly gay clientele, being put to a much better use than as a bolt-hole for three or four shameless Tories! It became K20 but closed a while back and was boarded up the last time I passed it. EVERYBODY’S CLUB; Brewery Yard, Brampton.

My only evidence for inclusion is this old photo of cottages within the yard (courtesy of the Borough Museum Service,) which had a note attached, labelling one of the cottages (on the right, with the half-round window) as such. Brewery Yard still exists, to the north of Chatsworth Road.

FAMILY CLUB, The; Hollis Lane, Chesterfield.

A snooker club that took on a more general brief and became “Michael’s.”

LABOUR CLUB, The; Saltergate, Chesterfield.

Still going—unlike its Conservative equivalent. The way things are going in local politics, though, the Liberals will be buying it out soon!

MICHAEL'S, Hollis Lane, Chesterfield.

Now The Family Club.

POLISH CLUB, The; Glumangate, Chesterfield.

Ah, the delights of climbing the thin, steep, dimly-lit staircase for a shot of krupnik! Founded, as the name suggests, by members of the expatriate Polish community.

GEOFF’S CLUB; Sheffield Road, Whittington Moor

Is now known as Chester’s Bar, having also been known as The Long Club, or The Thin Club, or something similar.

SALTERGATE CLUB, The; Saltergate, Chesterfield.

Built in 1967 by the Mansfield Brewery and the football club to provide a social club for supporters and steady income for the football club. Control of it was sold by the football club in the 1990s and, although it still allows fans to drink there before a game, the football club no longer makes money out of it. Many years before that, most footy fans had felt marginalised by the presence of a substantial number of non-footy fans apparently running the place by committee and, by the time it was sold, few fans went in there other than on match days. When the football club moved to the B2Net Stadium the Saltergate Club struggled on for a while, before closing in early 2011.