[jumpy shore]

I hadn't realised that it was a 'Miners Welfare' supported by subscription! I do remember that there was a full / part time employee who looked after the place in the late 60's and standing at the fence around the football pitch watching the 'Vikings' play often successfully. Maybe some of the £millions of unused miners pension funds could go to reinstating some of it?
In the early 70's I used to have a Saturdays and holiday job at the wood yard where the High School is now filling bags of logs and delivering them from the back of flat bed truck. There was a pigeon loft on the same field and we had to stop the diesel driven circular saw (no H&S guards) when the pigeons were due back from their race, which fitted in nicely for me with the watching the match!