The Dial House Club, Sheffield
The Dial House Club, Sheffield
The Dial House Club was once the best known club in Sheffield according to my sources and in its heyday was well known throughout clubland. Sadly, as with many other once-illustrious clubs, it no longer exists having been bought by developers and destroyed by fire.
Fortunately, some valuable documents were collected together for posterity before the club’s demise as it was recognised that they were a valuable piece of social history too good to throw away. They were carefully catalogued as best could be in date order – ranging from inaugural documents in the 1930's through to receipts, letters and the full spectrum of day to day running of the club, to its closing in 2005.
These are now lodged with Sheffield Archives. If this is of any interest, the address is archives@sheffield.gov.uk The material stored is as follows - ~
Sheffield Dial House Social Club
Correspondence, programmes, financial records etc are arranged in the following lever arch files
A social History 1938-1979, 1980-2005
CIU Convalescence 1976-1995
Balance sheets 1979-2005
Bass (brewers) lease 1992-2000
Community Resource Committee 2004-2006
Records of goods(cigarettes and chocolates) delivered 1977-1980
The documents have been given the Accession number 2006/123
The details have been added to the computer catalogue and, subject to certain restrictions, the items will be made available to researchers under supervision in the search room
We have Mr. Pete Williams to thank for doing this and to alerting Club Historians of the information and where we can now find it. He has saved a good resource for us all even though the wonderful club has been lost.
Ruth