TheIdle Working Men's Club is aworking men's club in the village ofIdle, a suburb ofBradford inWest Yorkshire,England.
The club was established in 1928 by workmen from a local sewage works who found that their shift working arrangements and thepublicensing hours left them unable to have a drink after work.
The humorous pun in the club's name has attracted interest from around the world. The club has benefited by granting honorary memberships to people who would not normally fit its criteria for membership. Present honorary members includeMohammed Al Fayed,Paul Gascoigne,Uri Geller andLester Piggott.[1]Richard Whiteley,Michael Jackson,Tom O'Connor andRoger Moore were also honorary members.[2]
In keeping with the tradition of many working men's clubs, Idle Working Men's Club supports a number of charities, most notably the children's cancer charityCandlelighters.[3]
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