Senior Youth Club members
members of the ‘Senior’ Youth Club in 1952
L-R back Roger Mills, Bob Draper, Derek Crouch, John Pickett, Jim Morgan, Donald Gibbs, Arthur Abbot
L-R front Jane Gill, Mary Benson, Betty Carey, Audrey Taylor, Derek Taylor, Kathleen Barnes, Doris Jarrett
Peter Myhill “…much against my better judgement I was made secretary of the Youth Club in the last year before my National Service in 1952. We had been given a derelict hut on Delegarde Farm behind the Fire Station. It had been the firemen’s overnight sleeping hut during the war and we repaired it – some of the lads of my age were apprentice bricklayers and carpenters and we very quickly turned it into a really comfortable club-house… as well as being Youth Club Secretary, I represented the Youth Club on the Carnival Committee and they lumbered me with running the youth dances at Saint Mary’s Hall…”
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