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From a hired black-and-white set perched on the pool table in 1966 to today's beer garden screens, watching sport together has always been part of the furniture here. We asked members to share their memories of the finals, cup runs and world championships that filled the function room.
Behind the bar, past the biscuit tin, sits a cardboard box that's quietly become an archive of Mirfield life. We opened it. We have questions — and so might you, if any of this lot belongs to you.
Some of the biggest nights in our club's story never had a singer, a stage or a sold-out ticket. They happened at the annual general meeting, where a forest of raised arms settled arguments that shaped the Con Club we walk into today.
We asked our longest-serving members for the one night at the Con Club they'll never forget — and they didn't hold back. From a surprise proposal during the disco to a wedding do that emptied the kegs, here are the tales that prove this place has always been more than four walls and a bar.
Every club has a committee, but few are quite like ours. We spent a month peeking behind the door of the upstairs meeting room to find out what really keeps a sixty-year-old social club ticking — and it involves more bickering about brown sauce than you'd expect.
Founded by miners and mill workers in 1958, the Con Club was never just somewhere to drink. As chains and streaming reshape how we socialise, here's the case for why clubs like ours are worth fighting for — and what we need to do to win over the next generation.
We dug out the old committee minutes, bar ledgers and a few long-serving members' memories to compare what a night out at Mirfield Con Club actually cost across four eras. Spoiler: the pound in your pocket has never stretched further than it does behind our bar.
Ever wondered who decides which singer gets the Saturday slot, or how we fill a room with a fiver on the door? Pull up a chair — here's the honest, occasionally chaotic story of how the Con Club's entertainment gets booked.
The Con Club has never paid for celebrity bar staff — it's never needed to. We spent an evening chatting with the familiar faces who've served the pints, remembered the names and kept the place ticking for decades.
Sixty-five years on, the club on our doorstep is still where Mirfield comes together. We sat down with long-standing members to trace the story from 1958 to today — the acts, the fundraisers, the friendships and the small moments that built an institution.