ANNUAL DINNER DANCE
The Annual Dinner Dance at the Hoburne, a
three course dinner, coffee and mints. This year the club booked a Swing Band to entertain the dinner guests.
PUSSYFOOT DINNER
Dinner held in the Club in June. Salmon, Lobster or Crab. A comedian has been booked as the entertainment.
After the Great War, many of the Mudeford fishermen on returning from the war and missing the cameraderie of service life, started to meet in a hut at the rear of the (old) village hall.
They soon started to take a drink into the hut (which was unlicensed) with them and consequently the locals started to refer to them as ‘Pussyfooters’. This was because the main proponent of prohibition in the U.S.A. at that time, was ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson. This was the start of the Pussyfoot Club.(See the black and white photo in the Men’s Bar of the ‘Stanpit Road Pussyfoot Club’). The ‘Pussyfoot Dinner’ commenced in 1970 and has been a regular annual event since then. The seafood meal is in defference to the founders of our Club. Fisherman still work out of Mudeford and several familes are members of the Club.
Picture of William Eugene ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson.
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