This was a local club for the retired members of the Bailiff Bridge community. This was taken on December 1, 1994 when a few local school musicians came to entertain them at one their regular Thursday meetings.

A nice trip to Chapeltown just a few miles from Sheffield today. The Chapeltown 50+ Club at the Newton Chambers Memorial Hall. It was estimated there was an audience of 120, and they were given my Superstitions, Resolutions and who was St Valentine and then being early in the New Year I told them about the origins of Auld Lang Syne as, all illustrated as a powerpoint and with segments of music in there as well.
It was very well received with many of the audience coming up to tell me about their superstitions - they would not buy a house that was number 13 and would not lay a table over night with a white table cloth and but would watch out for the single magpie and make efforts to find its partner, this is not a good sign.
Lots of laughs on the way.

A busy week already and it is only Wednesday - Tuesday morning a visit to the members at Calder and Savile Probus Club in Halifax. It was nice to be back after a few years absence. I can still remember speaking to this group for the first time 40 years ago.

No Console Games, No PC and hardly any TV either

Take away computers, consol gaming, DVD's and 100 channel TV which is available 24 hours a day and you have the 1950s! We had toys, but ours would fit under the bed and not need a separate room to put them in. Our biggest toys were of a natural kind, trees, woods, and our own imagination. Then we had dreams of being a Roy Rogers, Davy Crockett, or Robin Hood, now it's all about celebrity!