Just a few members of the Bailiff Bridge Silver Lining club that usrd met at the Ebenezer Chapel. This was a club where older members of the village community could go and enjoy catching up with friends, listen to a speaker and then have tea.

Sadly, those days are long gone with the club having closed when the number of members too few for the club to continue. There is a point when a club does find itself in a non-viable situation which is always sad for those that are still there at the end. A club also needs members to do what I always call the 'top table' jobs. These are the officials who sadly these days are getting harder and harder find.

I know having heard the story many times how someone new has go to a local organisation and enjoyed the meeting and the speaker. Members encourage them to attend the following week and although it is the AGM, which often only lasts 15 minutes, there is still a good speaker on after the official business.  

It is often after the meeting and the new member having returned home suddenly realises, they are now the club secretary or even worse the club chairman or just a new committee member. 'How did that happen', you will think to yourself. Well, there lies the trick, when volunteers were called for everyone else took one step back and you fell for the oldest trick in the book.

Having been a speak at many local clubs and organisations throughout the county for over 45 years I have often heard it said that once having got into the job they actually enjoy it. But often say they now have a year to find someone else.

Here are eight members of the Silver Lining Club in December 1994 when some of the music students from Hipperholme and Lightcliffe School came along to entertain them.