Friendship, fun and community service
One of the, unwritten rules of the) Canterbury Commercial ! Travellers Club is that! ! no-one in their club bar should be left sitting alone. Their emblem is the hand of friendship.
This week j the Canterbury Club and the United Association celebrate 75 years of ( friendship coupled with fun and community service. The club ■is probably best known for two things. The first took place in 1918, but has earned it a lasting place In the hearts of Cantabrians. In that year Lancaster Park was to be sold off, as its mortgage could not be met.
The Canterbury Commercial Travellers Club rallied around, raising some £12,000 to pay the mortgage and save the park for the city. They still have two seats on the Victory Park Board in recognition of their efforts. The second is their continuing contributions to the Blinded Servicemen’s Fund. Their support began in 1917 and has since provided such basic comforts as electric stoves, refrigerators, and concrete paths as well as
therapy materials. The club was (chartered in 1953, and although it originally catered for commercial travellers and warehousemen | — a strictly male preserve — it is now open to all people over the (age of 20. Canterbury was the first club in the United Association to ( press for mixed membership and the first to have a female committee member. Members enjoy a wellrun club which .keeps up a reasonable standard of dress and behaviour and whose international affiliation offer them somewhere to go! in their travels where (hey can be sure of a welcome. The club’s | members now include bank managers, lawyers, sales representatives and self-em-ployed alongside the commercial travellers. The club building in Kilmore Street offers the chance to have a drink and a game (of pool or darts among friends — a focal point for socialising or doing a little informal business. ( It also offers the chance to do some good in the community arid to participate in a range of club activities. 1 1
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