THE POSH PAPER No Riff-Raff Brighton - Crawley - Hastings - Hackney Ritzy Tea & Classy Cabaret for Swanky Senior Citizens & Glamorous Golden Girls Hello Posh Clubbers, The main business in The Posh Paper Pop Charts, Pin Up and other frippery is the showbiz listings for our four created by The Posh Club gang with a big clubs in 2019. We are presenting tongue-in-cheek stance. All Events: dozens of dos featuring the finest We want to encourage our guests entertainment, combined with the to visit our other clubs and cross- 12noon - 3pm warmest welcome from the smartest pollinate. Why not check out the volunteers in our four fancy gaffs performance listings and get on - in Crawley, Brighton, Hastings & the train for a big day out to catch Hackney. your favourite acts in another town? Come and enjoy our classic Hackney punters schlep to Hastings, All Tickets: £5 afternoon tea, watch cult cabaret, Crawley punters take a beano in chin wag with chums, drink bubbly Brighton ... and so on. You never … then dance. It’s afternoon action know, you might even meet a new for the groovy, grand, golden partner, or at least a few new mates. generation. See you at the Speakeasy, For Patrons The Posh Paper is an attempt to link With love, the clubs together in a cultural scene, and invite you to get to know some The homespun showbiz gang that Aged 60+ And of the hosts, performers, volunteers, make The Posh Club punters and ‘vintage sandwich Simon, Dicky, Annie, Emmy, Tracey, Their Guests artistes’ that make up our crew. Azara, Becca, Lorraine, Phil, Anna, For a laff, we have mimicked the Beannie, Dan, Geoff, Rhys, Daisy, tropes of mainstream tabloids, and Claire, Ken, Wendy, Enid, Luke, Lou, these pages contain the likes of a Daisy, Mr Magoo … and all of our Horoscope, Crossword, Agony Aunt, glamorous volunteers. Dress Code: Posh Guanti Bianchi Remove your white everyday gloves before reading this newspaper. You might prefer to wear a darker pair to disguise POSH TIP any ink stains or, if you are in the right sort To Mum of company and feeling bold, try using your naked hands, it's quite liberating. The Posh Club is dedicated to The Posh Club founders Simon & Annie’s late Mum, Florence Irene Casson, What’s Inside who passed away in 2012, aged 84, just as the club was beginning. Mum loved fun, line dancing, 1. Posh Lady 10/11. Crawley Listings prawn cocktails, Morecambe and 2. Hello / Mum 12/13. Hastings Listings Wise, Pontins, Russell Watson, dressmaking, Countdown, tea, 3. Posh Pin Up / Pink Suits 14/15. Hackney Listings Strictly Come Dancing, half a lager, 4. Volunteers Page / Cartoon 16. PC*DC / Tea For Two gardening, and most of all, her kids. 5. Ask Annie / Father Niall 17. Role Models / Ida Barr 6. Star Signs 18. Cakes / Fashions / Jokes 7. Azara / Top Tens 19. Crossword / Funders 8/9. Brighton Listings 20. Sponsor a Scone Front Cover: Sue Harding by Peter Robertshaw Back Cover: Barbara Layne & Timberlina by Caroline Furneaux The Posh Pinup Irene Sinclair At the incredible age of 110 years old, Irene Sinclair is the most senior Posh Club guest, a Hackney grande dame, former model and a fashion icon. Born and bred in Guyana in the Caribbean, Irene settled in Britain in the 1950’s. A message to discerning young fashionistas, if you want to truly understand proper glamour, check out Irene’s looks on Wednesdays. From her hats and gloves, to her chic vintage cocktail dresses, she has definitely got the lick. As our first Posh Paper Pin-Up, we pay homage to Irene. Spotlight On ... Pink Suits A big fav at the Posh Club, especially with their gender bending Dirty Dancing tribute, Pink Suits are an original dance duo made up of real life couple Lennie & Ray. LIVES: Margate EATS: Cake SLEEPS: Pink silk and lots of pillows READS: Autobiographies (Slash, Tommy Steele) WATCHES: Would I Lie To You DANCES: Dirty Dancing HATES: Lateness SMELLS: Cake WEARS: Pink onesies LOVES: Black coffee in bed photo by: Sushi Targett Volunteer of the Year Volunteer The Posh Club have been blessed with over 200 volunteers in the past few years, and we love all of them. Our first ever and Corner most longstanding volunteer, Enid Bacon - 89 years young this May - has to be our choice for Volunteers Wordsearch Volunteer of the Year. There are 31 names hidden in this wordsearch, some of the main volunteers from the four As well as juggling the vintage clubs, can you spot some of them? cups and saucers in Crawley, Enid volunteers for both Age UK C L A U N A I L L I G B R Amelia Gill and a toddlers group at her local church St Mary’s. Originally from A L I C E N Y A J I D O O Anita Gillian London, she moved to Crawley Ann Jayne R I A N N O P S E D N J Y in 1957 and was happily married Arno Judy to her late husband Stan for 60 A G T U I T B O N N I E E Barb Linda golden years. L B R I D I E S N A L N L Bea Lydia Not a fan of slippers and the telly, Becky Y E V E B R A B Y I O A D Margaret this dedicated community activist Beth Pat N T L B E C K Y A D C M U will never give up grafting and Bonnie Peter actually retire, but on her rare T H O M A S J U D Y O E D Bridie Rachel days off, she relaxes with her two A I P T R A C H E L E L A Caralyn Richie sons, Phillip, 64, and Kenneth, Colin Robert 70. A big fan of musical theatre, P A V E N O R E T E P I T her favourite show of all time Claud Sue is Rodgers and Hammerstein’s T I E R O B E R T E C A I Despo Thomas ‘Oklahoma!’ V U T E R A G R A M H B N Dudley Viv Enid Enid Bacon, we salute you, S L I N D A E I H C I R A they don’t make them like you anymore. ...put your hands together for CREAM TEASE ! Got a Problem? Why not ‘Ask Annie’? ASK ANNIE The Posh Club’s resident Agony Aunt. Dear Annie, Dear Annie, Dear Annie, Q After a wonderful 56 years of Q As a single lady, I attend The Q My husband and I used to marriage, I lost my beloved Posh Club once a fortnight. go ballroom dancing and husband last year. I have been feeling I had been on the look out for a still have a few beautiful ballgowns quite lonely and wonder if will ever gentleman friend, and one of the and smart evening suits. We were feel happy again. I have a lovely single men on my regular table wondering if they would be too daughter and 3 grandchildren, who kept winking at me. I was waiting over the top to wear at The Posh I see every week. But I feel I’ve lost for him to make a move on me, but Club? Please can you help us my zest for life. Annie, please can you he never did. So I thought I would decide? advise me? ask him out, as I thought he was Maureen & Mike in Maidenbower Betty in Broadfield interested, because of the winking. Although he did say yes, I’ve since Dear Maureen & Mike, Dear Betty, found out he has a twitch - hence A We love stylish and A I am so sorry to hear that the winking – so it wasn’t a sign that glamorous outfits at the you’ve lost your husband. 56 he fancied me after all! However, club – please go for it you two and years is an amazing achievement. we are going on a date next week dress to impress. You will be the You will naturally grieve for a long to the pictures. beau and the belle of The Posh while, but within time things will start Can you wish us luck? Club ball. to get better. Don’t stay at home Ingrid in Ifield hiding yourself away, as you will only Please send your problems to: feel worse and lonelier. Get out, keep Dear Ingrid, email: [email protected] busy, do social things and see people, A Oh dear, I can imagine how post: Annie Bowden, 28 it will help the grieving process. embarrassed you were, but Wakehurst Drive, Crawley, Carry on coming to The Posh Club, he did say yes, didn’t he? Tell him W.Sussex, RH10 6DH as it will lift your spirits, and just take this funny story - have a laugh and each day as it comes. really enjoy your date. Posh Club co-founder Annie runs the original gaff in Crawley. Sending you love, Annie x Note From Niall DICKY’S Greetings from St Paul’s Church HAIR TIPS - proud home of the eternally youthful Hackney Posh Club which Dicky from Duckie does a wonderful job of keeping is the big fixer across old Vicars like me feeling young all of the Posh Clubs. at heart and hot to trot. As an honorary ‘Posh Clubber’ myself But how does he fix ...put your hands together for CREAM TEASE ! with a little grey on top, I’m a firm his lovely hair? Is it: believer in that old Celtic adage A.