I remember being a woman, you know, kind of in my 20s. What I really liked about, you know, on a Friday night or a Saturday night, the members bar was a place that you could go and have a drink and not feel that you were going to have any bother. Anika Easy It was just like right, what pubs can we get into? And it was kind of a very safe space for young people that dress differently because we were all sort of wearing punk clobber, and in those days there were a lot of tribes … but yeah, 1 in 12 Club. I don’t remember any kind of trouble between any tribes of that kind of thing. So yeah, it was a good place to hang out. Jonathan Lorrimer It was a mix, all sorts of different people, punks, old hippies, people, musos, all sorts of people, and the atmosphere were great because there were never any bother, very rarely any trouble, only if a few drunk pissheads started, but that were very rare. Gary Cavanagh It’s interesting, you know, we can count the number of fights. I think there was more fighting at the women only events than there was in the general thing. Dave Gropper It’s just a Bradford institution at the end of the day, like it’s somewhere where relationships are built between people. It’s been a consistent safe space, I feel, for my entire life. So if you’re ever in trouble, you know someone’s at the 1 in 12, and somebody’s always got your back. Kaya Cullerton That’s what the club was doing back in the 90s. It was a warm space like, actually, come down here, you have the heating on, you know, we’re on the dole couldn’t afford heating so, yeah, that created that sort of space well before we thought about it in the larger community. Gordon Mackintosh
PART TWO: A PLACE OF COMMUNITY
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