the real phoenix nights — what happened next. i've got loads and loads of fond memories of the club. i've grown up in the club along with my sister. we've kind of been dragged in here by my dad since we were like four and six. it was really good times, really good times. we had lots of fun. the club means absolutely everything to me. it's huge. the impact it's had on my life from a child to an adult made me be more aware of other people, what other people are going through. it's definitely moulded me and made me who i am. my dad and the club go together. they are one thing really. if my dad's not at home or he's not

at the club, we panic. right, is everyone ready to go? if the club was to close, i think i'd be dead in about a year. i know a lot of people feel that when they walk through the doors, this club is where they belong. i am responsible for the club financially. the buck stops with me. do you want me to do it all green orjust half? no. — just leave it. i think it looks like shrek. we don't know what's around the corner. we've currently not got a signed lease so our landlords could serve us six—month notice and that's it. we'll be gone. has the club been busier? it has. but i will admit we are| very, very down today. very down. i know by the money! i have a real moral responsibility to ensure that the club continues for as long as it possibly can.

welcome to clacton railway social club. this through here is our office. this is where all the magic happens and where me and alan spend most of our time. i apologise now for the filing system, but this is, this is alan's filing system, not mine. it's my idea of hell. so i try not to be in here too much! how would i describe the club? it's unique. i've always referred to it very similar to peter kay's phoenix nights. just let me get this straight again. two lads walk in off the street and take the television and you did nothing. we thought you'd arranged it. arranged what?

they were wearing overalls. none of our committee get paid whatsoever. it is all voluntary. not bingo, no. i think it's a boring game. i started four years ago to help them out. i'm still doing it. alan. he is the key person in the club, i would say, next to my dad. his properjob is a driver, a taxi driver, but to me he's taxi alan. most of them come up- with £20 notes to buy £1.50 books and it's annoying! we have pam pink, who is a trustee of the club. she's in charge of the bingo and the raffle, and no one gets through that door without being sold a raffle ticket. any more raffle tickets? going once, going twice... i'm gone. my dad, he's a character. after 25 years, i am the boss. he can be quite volatile but that's because he cares and he's passionate.

kelly is very abrasive. # i want to break free!# my career and life was very, very different before. i went into banking at 18. every possible way you can imagine, it's different to the corporate world. alan... there's no real set targets. alan... there's no real structure to any day. what's he done with that? alan... it's a profit and loss statement and my agenda for tonight. leave me in peace for five minutes. right, this stuff's got to be here... we haven't thrown it away, have we?

i don't think so. i don't know. what... ? what's that in your little blue pile there? that is bits. 0h, what's that? no, that's a bank statement. alan's safe place. it's always in a safe place. you will eventually find it. it's just the process of finding it. tonight is the committee meeting. can they be a bit challenging? yes, extremely. depending on what is being discussed. at the moment, purchasing all the fruit for the bar is kind of falling on alan's shoulders or nicky... and me. and pam, and pam is getting the fruit. ifind it, yeah, a little bit tiring at times, but it's a different, it's a different world. i have some ideas,

but i do get carried away. we never knew that! but i think it would be nice to maybe have, maybe have a face painter for the children, maybe a candyfloss machine, ice lollies. i don't know what people's thoughts are on it. just hold it down by the pier. and leave the rest of us alone to have a quiet drink! no, because we need to be attracting... come the middle of september... they ain't going to be drinking at six or seven years old, are they? i tend to come in and put my business head on and that can cause a few issues at times. for us, the next couple of months and the events that we're putting on are really going to determine for us the future of the club. we have to modernise the way

that we work and the way the club operates to ensure that we stay open. me and my sister, we worry tremendously that if the club was to close where our dad would go, what would be his life? i'll get really upset if we talk about my dad. yeah, i really love my dad. my dad means everything to me. and because the club means everything to him, that's why we do everything that we do. the club is my life and the people in here is my life. they're all my friends. so i'm here representing all of them. if the club was to close, i think i'd be dead in about a year

because i'd die of boredom. it's notjust my side of it. it's lots of other people that come in here wouldn't be alive either. getting through the summer, summer season, summer period is a huge hurdle. it's always a worry financially for us. i've always lived in clacton. my family are from clacton. so, yeah, i couldn't imagine living anywhere else really. like, my dad could never venture out of clacton without having a nosebleed. he is literally born and bred and he's very proud of that. the pier and the beaches are probably our biggest competitors

because why do you want to be sat inside on a sunny day when you can be out sitting on the pier, having a drink or relaxing on the beach? everything has been sold off around us. so it's really key that we get a new tenancy agreement signed because at the moment we don't have one. they could actually give us six months' notice and ask us to leave the building. so we are hanging on by

a thread at the moment. today is a really big day for us because we are getting back a lot of our older members that haven't been in for absolutely ages and there are some huge characters in here. you've got bill, you've got linda, you've got knocker, you've got pat. have you seen emmerdale lately? yes, i love it. oh, that girl, ain't she terrible? but she did... she's a cow! hello, jeff. nice to see you. yeah, thank you. there you go, jeff. jeff is very much part of the club. jeff's best bits! a really dry sense of humour. only bits, yeah! hello, george.

are you all right? all right? yeah, are you? yeah, it's the others! i know! it always is, isn't it? it always is! you 0k? yes, thank you. yeah. lovely to see ya. for them, this is a lifestyle. so for them to be able to come up at the bar and have a laugh and a giggle. they'll take the mick out of alan as he's calling the bingo. and if he messes up, you'll hear them all screaming and shouting. and then for us, it's about our members feeling that the club is back. gorgeous george, they call me. why do they call - you gorgeous george? cos i'm gorgeous. i'm attractive to women. he'll tell ya! we look after you, george, don't we? that's right. fingers crossed today. fingers crossed. i keep looking at the door and keep looking at the time, to see how many people are in and you know where they're sitting in their usual seats. who's missing? jill, do you want a chair? no, thank you. we just like this table, you know what i mean? mates sit behind us and we have a laugh. you know what i mean? my dad genuinely cares. he comes across as being a really hard person and he's got this real hard exterior, but he is probably the most

caring person i know. he would never, ever admit that but he is. what's your nickname here? mo. 0r mouthy! why mouthy? cos i talk loud and i laugh loud. and i'm cheeky. yes. i'm cheeky but i'm never rude. i've got broad shoulders. i take lots of abuse and i don't care. i some chairmans don't even come out and see their club. butjohn's always here. he's here every single day. he makes people welcome. it is a monumental day for the club. and it's nice to see so many people in here because we know— they're coming back. bringsjoy to me, yeah. people do belong here in the club. yes, they do. and that's what we thrive on — friendship. - right, is everybody ready to go?

the first number out is eight and six, 86. 86. two and seven, 27. yay! blimey, that's normal for her! thank you. i believe in the club and i see the impact the club has on so many people's lives. god bless you, kelly. we are their family and friends. god bless you all. bye, girl. take care. bye — bye. bye. bye, everybody. bye, george. bye. bye, darling. # goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!#

alan, stagger them. one, two, three. when we have our �*90s nights or anything nights, that's where kelly's in her element. right, we need to get those runners on the table. so this is how i'd like the tables to look. she'll have me and alan like her little minions. we'll come in, she'll tell us where we need to be, what we need to do. and then the third one... me and kelly make a good team, probably because she likes to be really bossy. are you using them weights, then? yes. can you not use the orange ones? well, i can. well, i've tied them on now. right. and i'm quite happy to be bossed around really. what are you using them for, then?

right, i'm off. all right, then. i'll see you later. i'll see you back here about 7:30. all right, then. bye bye. bye. bye bye. we were together 20 years. 20 years. the episode was on. she was lovely. she always liked to cuddle whatever night time before. we call him gorgeous george. and now everybody, even old men, will come in and say, all right, gorgeous george. here we go. hello? roy. you're 0k? yes, thank you. good, good. how are you feeling? yes, thank you. you feeling better? yes, thank you. i've got some bits and bobs. thank you very much. all right, come on in.

yeah, i'm coming in. good. right. watch how you go. george, i'm gonna put this on the worktop for you, all right? i'm gonna pop it in here. i suppose a lot of them. and you look upon us almost like grandparents, and you can have a little bit of fun and a little bit of banter with them. do you want me to get you anything else for tuesday? yeah. lynx africa again! africa? oh, you love a bit of that, didn't you? yes. i've got you on that. yes. smelling fresh, for the women. you should know that. yeah. also, there's love there. there's a lot of love for them there. so if they needed you, i'd like to think that they could always call upon us. so you are feeling better today? yes. thanks, love, you have been very kind to me stop i will say that.

yeah. are you all right? are you sure? anything else you need? no, just your company. you are nice people, i will say that. i'm off now, george. i will see you tuesday, all right? all right, george, bye. back to the 905 we go tonight!

mine is a lot bigger than yours! i think you've got it the wrong way round, babes! i don't think so! i think it is going really well, we have got lots of new faces in, lots of new members. the bar is really busy and people seem to be enjoying themselves. i'm really pleased with the turnout so far. i don't mind it but it is not my ear! i'm 60! i'm too old for this music. but i will put up with it. we have got quite a few new members are coming, definitely, which will be really

nice if we can get them to sign up as well because that is the type of crowd i would like to attract. that would be the weekend sorted then. music: wonderwall by oasis. we have cards, the younger generation, we don't know what we have spent. it's tap, tap, tap. the youngsters will start up their drinks and then shots will come out and we have got

cocktails on tonight. the people that we met, most of them are older than us but they're just nice people. we walked in and thought we will have one drink and leave and then we stuck around for a couple. it is a nice laugh and a good night out. i want to thank everyone who has come tonight. l it has been a great night. thank you to the dj. round of applause. thank you very much, see you all soon. - a brilliant night. everyone seems to have had a lovely time. the dance floor was packed most of the time and the bar has been very busy. obviously i will know tomorrow when i do the takings. not you again! well, ll the better for not seeing you. you better come in, i suppose.

the club is exactly the same as it was a year ago and i reckon in ten years it will be exactly the same as it is now. you said to me, we have tidied that cupboard up. we did. nice to see you, i haven't seen you for a year. what started as a really decent start for us, we actually finished on a really big high. —— dismal start. we have secured a ten year lease. we have had new members and we have still got members who still want to join and we are looking at finishing the year by actually making a profit. the summer has always been our biggest worry was actually this year has been our best summer ever. we were packed to the rafters. how many businesses are in a position where they can do that? i think now people are looking out for when we are running our next event. they know that they are worthwhile to

come to and we have put our name on the map for our events. it did take the committee a little while and a lot of persuasion. has the club been busier? it has but we are very, very down today. very down. i know by the money! my dad, i think he appreciates that the theme night do work for the club. he will make remarks every now and then and you kind of go, oh, that is his way of saying well done. so i will take that when he says it. he never bloody says it, though, does he, alan? so this is your costume. the joker. she is advertised on facebook, which i have never been on in my life and she is doing a fantasticjob. do you feel happy with this,

would you want your hair sprayed? i think the club has modernised, yeah. we are looking towards the future. we want our memberss children to become members, their grandchildren to become members. that has gone in your ear, you look like shrek! let me do the front. it is all about looking after the people you want to be members in future years. we are not going to live forever. do you want a cup of tea? thanks, mum. i'm so grateful to the club and the members and i did feel bad that i wasn't going to be there for them. i do really miss george. as i say, i see him occasionally but it is not the same.

it is not the same sitting down with him on a tuesday morning and having a cup of tea and we would sit and have a long chat and he would tell me what he had been up to. but we do have another member of staff at the club called nikki and she is amazing with george. lift it up. right? thank you. do you want me to put this all over orjust on the side? i haven't got bottles, it is a bit awkward. i have got another one. she does all my washing. i do my own underwear and socks. and i do the rest! we draw a line at certain things! he keeps me on my toes on a monday, gives me something to do on my day off! we only know by george coming to the club that he got - poorly and there is not a lot

of help going around. - when i first heard, because obviously i was with him, the doctor was explaining it to me because george was going, yeah, that is fine. it was heartbreaking. yeah, it isjust because we weren't allowed to stay when we found out and obviously george, because he was so poorly, he didn't get what was going on or why he had to stay. we'll get through it, girl. of course we will. i would be lost without you, girl. she is like a daughter to me, she really is. i and as i said, if it i wasn't for the club, i wouldn't have had nobody.

the landlord has given us ten years lease so as long as we are making money we know we are going to be here for the next minimum ten years for our members. it doesn't matter what anyone is going through, we will always, always do our best to help and support. i am really proud of where i work and proud of the people i work with. i'm really proud of the people that i call my friends that make this club a success. cheers! # i'm going to make a good sharp axe, sharpened steel...# -

big differences across the uk this weekend, scotland and northern ireland, cloudierskies, milderair ireland, cloudier skies, milder air from ireland, cloudierskies, milderair from the atlantic. england and wales, sunshine in many places, some fog around, that has been proving rather stubborn across eastern parts of wales, west midlands, west country, northern england, maybe in the valleys, hanging around, still cloud coming into scotland and northern ireland. a bit of drizzle, nothing too much, quite windy especially in the north—west of scotland, temperatures nine celsius across northern ireland also. cultivated and wales, especially with the mist and fog. cloud overnight for scotland and northern ireland, rain from the atlantic, for

england and wales, clear skies, that will lead to more fog forming, especially across eastern parts of england, this time it will be dense and freezing, a widespread phosphate england and wales, —7, chilly in south—east scotland, the rest of scotland and northern ireland above freezing. milder headline to care, south of south—westerly wind. light went underneath the blocking area of high pressure keeping it cold across england and wales come out for some areas still some fog. mainly across lincolnshire, perhaps in the parts of yorkshire, into the east midlands, down towards the south—east, only very slowly lifting, some patches lingering into the afternoon. further west, lifting, some patches lingering into the afternoon. furtherwest, more cloud across england and wales, more cloud across england and wales, more cloud for scotland and northern ireland, rain easing off through the day, sunshine around the moray firth. double figures in scotland, only three or four celsius across eastern parts of england, colder if the fog lingers. high—pressure killing off the frost, keeping us in

much the same picture as we head into monday, passive eastern england and midlands will see some fog in the morning, maybe lifting, sunshine outside, still cold, western parts of england and wales to the north, still in that milder car the atlantic air, a bit of rain and result was the far north—west of scotland perhaps, temperatures again in double figures. any significant changes, this weather front running southwards, pushing away the area of high pressure, changing the weather eventually across south—eastern parts. more of the same on tuesday before we get into the mall that cloudier weather on wednesday, then across—the—board it should be fairly mild for the second half of the weekend and not much rain.

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