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Memories of the club trip
It’s no surprise the kids ended up as staunch clubgoers in later years. Their own experience of life with the ‘club family’ started at an early age and happy memories of the ‘club trip’ were etched into their DNA. It was regularly a military operation involving scores of coaches heading for the coast depending on size of club and number of children involved. They were well organised and gave a sense of amazing freedom to the kids that got to roam about a sea resort for the day on their own. Cleethorpes, Bridlington, Blackpool and Skegness were always popular destinations...
Fortunes won and lost in Sheffield’s 1990s evening economy
The story of Sheffield's clubbing explosion of the 1990s that was heralded by the granting of a license for The Republic which later became Gatecrasher. It was a period of unrivaled investment as new venues and nights exploded across the city.