The East Ham Working Mens Club has made a decision after suffering months of losses followingafter West Ham football club moved out of the area.
The club based in Boleyn Road, a stone’s throw from the old Boleyn Ground, has been eating into their cash reserves by as much as £7,000 per week but at an Extraordinary General Meeting over the weekend eighty members decided to vote to redevelop the site into flats with a ground floor bar.
Members were given a number of options including closing the club or merging with West Ham United Supporters’ Club but decided instead favor working with a property developer.
Subject to planning permission the site could be home to 50 new flats with a new smaller ground floor clubhouse for the EHWMC members. Assuming the deal goes ahead the members will temporarily relocate to allow demolition and redevelopment as early as next year.
Another institution bites the dust. Sad.
3 people to blame for another disaster….Gold, Sullivan and Brady.. They’ve done an incredible amount of damage to our club and surrounding institutions..And I honestly don’t think they care about our club..I wouldn’t trust them as far as you could throw them, which wouldn’t be very far..