About Glossop Labour Club
Glossop Labour Club is an independent social club home to people who share a progressive outlook on life.
Glossop Labour Club Description
Events and community
We are at the heart of a vibrant community in Glossop. Regular activities at the club include a Folk Club on Tuesdays and an informal music session on Fridays. We are home to a walking group, a reading group, a women's group and a knitting group. The Glossop Folk Train visits us once a month and we host Glossop Record Club for all you Vinyl junkies. We are a community space and we host a number of groups including the Glossop Guild, Samba Band, a Creative Writing group, Zumba, Peace Group, People's Kitchen and many others.
History
The club was founded in 1906 by some of Glossopdale's leading trade unionists, co-operators and suffragettes. They were young and enthusiastic socialists and were extremely active politically in the valley. Throughout our history we have been home to people from all the various traditions on the left and to people with no party political affiliation.
Membership
Whilst many of our activities are open to the public, we are a members club. To become a member pop in and collect a form from the bar. Our normal membership is called a 'social' membership and costs just £5 a year. Once you've been a member for a year you can apply for full membership which entitles you to vote in elections and to stand for committee.
Principles
We are proud of our socialist history and expect members to abide by our principles of equality and liberty for all. We do not tolerate sexism, racism or any form of hatred towards minority groups.
Facebook page rules
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If someone breaches these rules we reserve the right to remove posts or block people from using the page.
Reviews
A message from Joe Solo explaining the ideas behind the We Shall Overcome movement. The next WSO gig at the club is Sept 29th.
Our next Defiance Sessions live music gig. Tickets on sale behind the bar.
From New York City, Steve Suffet describes himself as an old fashioned folksinger. His repertoire is a mixture of railroad songs, trucker songs, coal miner songs, cowboy songs, union songs, old time ballads, blues, ragtime, Gospel, bluegrass, topical-political songs, Woody Guthrie songs, and whatever else tickles his fancy. .
In the 1960s, Steve appeared at several of the legendary Broadside hoots in ...New York City and performed at the various pass-the-basket houses in Greenwich Village, and on warm Sunday afternoons he could be found partaking in the music making around the fountain in Washington Square Park.
In the intervening 50 years Steve has played at political rallies and demonstrations, campgrounds, schools, day care centers, weddings, parks, pubs, and pick-up jam sessions. He's accompanied the legendary Pete Seeger and played his songs at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in 2011.
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Speakers, Cllr Roxanne Ellis from the Women's Quilt Project and Vicky from Crossroads, formerly High Peak Women's Aid.
Reminder of event tomorrow. Please see comments for change to second session in programme.
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EVENT: UNIVERSAL CREDIT IN THE HIGH PEAK: WHAT WILL HAPPEN AND HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND ? Monday 3 September, Mason’s Arms, High Street, New Mills from 7pm. Universal Credit is going to be rolled out in the High Peak to all new claimants from September 12. It will not affect existing claimants at this stage UNLESS they change their circumstances. The roll out of Universal Credit is continuing to take place across the country despite the huge amount of criticism from all ...quarters and the call to stop implementation until the problems have been fixed. Charlotte Hughes and Colin Hampton will be talking about the impact of Universal Credit has had in Ashton and Chesterfield respectively. There will be a report on the support currently in place in preparation for Universal Credit and a discussion on what else members of the community might be able to do to help. All those with an interest in this issue or want to explore ways in which they may be able to help are encouraged to attend.
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Tunes, songs, poems, etc. Anything you want to bring along
Eurpean tunes plus dancing
Tomorrow and every fourth Sunday in the Club - Joe and Baz's music night from 8.30
This framed and signed 'Daily Mail' cartoon was acquired for the Club at yesterday's Democracy Road show with Chris Williamson, MP and Tosh McDonald, recent President of ASLEF. Tosh (standing with his arms folded) auctioned the signed copy to raise funds. Great that the 'Daily Mail' is helping to fund such a good cause!!
£62.10 was raised for Stand Up to Racism at the recent showing of the film adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1953 play about the Salum Witch Hunts. http://www.standuptoracism.org.uk/
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It was great to see Sonya in the Club recently for the John Hallsworth memorial lecture. Here is Jeremy's speech in Mansfield yesterday, supporting Sonya who is going to be the Labour candidate there.
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Glossop Labour Club Music in August. Some of oour regular musicians will be away at Whitby Folk Week (18-25 August), but the Friday sessions wil go on as usual. We will be back from Whitby for the Sunday night music on 26th August so that is not affected.
Thanks for letting me have my christening party at the club everyone loved it
Popped in for the first time last night and was made to feel very welcome. Will definitely be back. �
Love this place. Great atmosphere, people, and attitude!!
Love this place. Friendly and welcoming as always. Socialism to the core � �
Love it here. Been three times. Every time I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Great community venue, always open and welcoming. Despite the name it's not affiliated to the Labour Party but independent and as an anarchist I've always felt welcome!
Friendly community club with lots going on to suit all tastes including the real ale selection and the music nights.
Friendly club in heart of Glossop. Real ale and some great community activities. Gigs, meet ups, and much more. Hosts the amazing Vinyl record club - not to be missed.
Congratulations to Glossop Labour club for putting on a very informative afternoon on the 100th anniversary of the Easter rising via their Red film club and the food Mmmm! it was superb, bacon and cabbage, mash, Irish stew, Irish Brack, almond gooseberry cake, soda bread all homemade, porter cheese Etc we are stuffed,we met some lovely people, the guest speaker and Author Robin Stocks was excellent at answering questions. Well done x
Thanks for letting me have my christening party at the club everyone loved it
Popped in for the first time last night and was made to feel very welcome. Will definitely be back. �
Love this place. Great atmosphere, people, and attitude!!
Love this place. Friendly and welcoming as always. Socialism to the core � �
Love it here. Been three times. Every time I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Great community venue, always open and welcoming. Despite the name it's not affiliated to the Labour Party but independent and as an anarchist I've always felt welcome!
Friendly community club with lots going on to suit all tastes including the real ale selection and the music nights.
Friendly club in heart of Glossop. Real ale and some great community activities. Gigs, meet ups, and much more. Hosts the amazing Vinyl record club - not to be missed.
Congratulations to Glossop Labour club for putting on a very informative afternoon on the 100th anniversary of the Easter rising via their Red film club and the food Mmmm! it was superb, bacon and cabbage, mash, Irish stew, Irish Brack, almond gooseberry cake, soda bread all homemade, porter cheese Etc we are stuffed,we met some lovely people, the guest speaker and Author Robin Stocks was excellent at answering questions. Well done x
Thanks for letting me have my christening party at the club everyone loved it
Popped in for the first time last night and was made to feel very welcome. Will definitely be back. �
Love this place. Great atmosphere, people, and attitude!!
Love this place. Friendly and welcoming as always. Socialism to the core � �
Love it here. Been three times. Every time I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Great community venue, always open and welcoming. Despite the name it's not affiliated to the Labour Party but independent and as an anarchist I've always felt welcome!
Friendly community club with lots going on to suit all tastes including the real ale selection and the music nights.
Friendly club in heart of Glossop. Real ale and some great community activities. Gigs, meet ups, and much more. Hosts the amazing Vinyl record club - not to be missed.
Congratulations to Glossop Labour club for putting on a very informative afternoon on the 100th anniversary of the Easter rising via their Red film club and the food Mmmm! it was superb, bacon and cabbage, mash, Irish stew, Irish Brack, almond gooseberry cake, soda bread all homemade, porter cheese Etc we are stuffed,we met some lovely people, the guest speaker and Author Robin Stocks was excellent at answering questions. Well done x