THIS interior view of the Farnworth and Kearsley Labour Club was taken in 1955 as part of a series looking at different clubs throughout the Bolton area, and the caption simply read "Games and relaxation inside the club."
The premises had originally been a pub, the Royal Oak, and had been taken over by the club just at the end of the First World War, when the membership was only 80 -- by 1955 it had grown to about 1,700.
The reporter obviously had a good time on his visit. "A person would indeed be very hard to please who did not enjoy a visit to Farnworth's 'king of clubs'," he wrote.
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