Just spotted on social media that it will close in November. Not been in for many years but used to go in fairly regularly when at St Ted's Sixth Form as a couple of mates worked there. Shame to see it go.

Another matchday watering hole gone, miners could be getting even more crowded

Was ok in the seventies...

When and why did it stop being the Irish League?

Think it was around 2000 when it changed its name. Not sure of the reason why.

Political

Clubs near the Turf which have gone in recent years..

Rose and Thistle
Conservative Club
Irish League


Concert Artists


- much further back..
Keighley Green
Miners [Thompson Park]

- any more?
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**Plumbe St Miners, 110 Club, Burnley Cricket Club all thriving on match days.

Crikey, another one bites the dust. I used to go in there in the mid 00s for a few games of pool and jukebox.

I think the home games are keeping several other clubs afloat.

hampsteadclaret wrote:Clubs near the Turf which have gone in recent years..

Rose and Thistle
Conservative Club
Irish League


Concert Artists


- much further back..
Keighley Green
Miners [Thompson Park]


- any more?
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**Plumbe St Miners, 110 Club, Burnley Cricket Club all thriving on match days.

Theyv shut cos they dont make a tap

My dad used to be the secretary there back in the 80s. They used to get hate mail and razor blades posted inside envelopes whenever there'd be an IRA bomb.

Eventually they changed their name in order to avoid the associations

The Irish league in Padiham shut this week as well. Do we not have many Irish people in the area anymore?

Has Fulledge Con Club closed too?

NL Claret wrote:Has Fulledge Con Club closed too?

Yes, Fulledge went during the summer I believe, it is going to become, or already is, a restaurant, not sure what cuisine it is though.

claretburns wrote:Yes, Fulledge went during the summer I believe, it is going to become, or already is, a restaurant, not sure what cuisine it is though.

Indian/Pakistani.

Leisure wrote:Indian/Pakistani.

I'll avoid then, don't have the tastebuds for spicy food, whenever I get dragged along to an Indian restaurant I always end up with chicken and chips, and I find that a little to spicy!

Leisure wrote:Indian/Pakistani.

that'd be an explosive mix Pete
One or the other surely

Pakistani marketed as an Indian I'd guess. Had a look when walking past the other day - looks very different to when it was a club

11..'The Irish league in Padiham shut this week as well. Do we not have many Irish people in the area anymore'?


I would say that the number of Irish BORN people living in the Burnley area these days is a lot smaller than it was.

Loads of Irish [including my dad] came over here after WW2, through the 1950's and into the 1960's...tens of thousands of them, in search of work and eventually, wives as well.

Burnley got a good number of them [as did many towns] and the school registers at St Theodore's and no doubt St Hilda's in the 1960s/1970s would testify to this...sadly that generation has slowly died off, though there are still a few proper Irish oldies left.

Back in the day, when Duke Bar had about nine/ten half-decent pubs they were buzzing with Irish people...Plumbe St Miners was another Irish hotbed.
This first generation Irish had thousands of children in the Burnley area. This is quite a close knit community I believe, I know many of them.

What this second/third generation of 'Irish descent' don't do, is head off en masse, like their parents did, to the Irish League, the Miners and the 110 Club...they are English first, Irish second [IMO].

The Derby up Duke Bar used to be an Irish Pub in the 70s and 80s.Ellsie and Bob had it.Like the rest of the Dukr Bar pubs it shut down.Hard to belive whats happend to Duke Bar, all the pubs used to be so busy now they are all gone-Apart from the Baltic VIC and Green st.Now the area has hardly any English people living there.Colne road used to be full of Antique shops, butchers ,shops and Grocery shops..Now its full of takeaways and mostly Muslims.Sad how an area has changed so much.St Theodores used to have lots of kids from Irish families including me.

Shame. Had friends over this weekeend and we went to plenty of pubs. Bridge. Talbot. Miners. Among others. Absolutely loved the miners. Said the atmosphere and the feeling in there was great.

Its true. Its last of a unique generation. Absolutely packed. Everyone having proper conversations. Not one table had a phone on it.

Quickenthetempo wrote:The Irish league in Padiham shut this week as well. Do we not have many Irish people in the area anymore?

I would say most of us or either dead or gone back home . Hey still alive and living in Galway

BleedingClaret wrote:that'd be an explosive mix Pete
One or the other surely

Yeah but don't know which! Anyway, can't see it lasting long in that location.

The Burnley Wood Conservative Working Mens Club is still open I believe. Don't know what it is like.

Perhaps the original founders of the Irish league should follow the lead of Fullege Con and open as an Indian restaurant?

Given they'd be Irish they could call it "Bombay Micks"

I went to Padiham Irish League on Christmas Day night about 15years ago. There was one other customer, an old lady having a dram. I went to the toilet and 'Fame' by David Bowie played through the speakers in the bogs. David Lynch couldn't have directed it better.

Never understood a conservative club in Burnley Wood. There nothing to conserve

hampsteadclaret wrote:Clubs near the Turf which have gone in recent years..

Rose and Thistle
Conservative Club
Irish League


Concert Artists


- much further back..
Keighley Green
Miners [Thompson Park]


- any more?
-----------------------

**Plumbe St Miners, 110 Club, Burnley Cricket Club all thriving on match days.

The Wellington, and a little further the Litten Tree, used to be a stop gap between Yates and Prinny. It's a longer walk now.

Think 110 club won't be far behind, unless Kev Mac helps them out a bit.

brexit wrote:The Burnley Wood Conservative Working Mens Club is still open I believe. Don't know what it is like.

Boris and Teresa nipped in for a livener on the way to the party conference.