Trimdon Labour Club
Trimdon Labour Club | |
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Former names | Trimdon Working Men's Club |
General information | |
Status | Closed |
Type | Constituency Labour Club |
Address | 22 Front Street South Trimdon County Durham TS29 6LZ[1] |
Coordinates | 54°42′05″N 1°25′47″W / 54.7015°N 1.4296°W |
Opened | 1993 |
Closed | 2010 |
Trimdon Labour Club was a bar and local branch of
History
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Trimdon Labour Club opened in its former state as a
It was opened in its repurposed state in 1993 by former Labour Leader Neil Kinnock, with the help of a £350 loan from Sedgefield Labour Party.[4] A year later, in 1994, then-Shadow Home Secretary and MP for Sedgefield Tony Blair announced that he would stand to be Leader of the Labour Party. He succeeded, replacing John Smith, who had died suddenly of a heart attack.[5]
Rise to fame
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Tony_Blair_in_2002.jpg/220px-Tony_Blair_in_2002.jpg)
In 1997, Tony Blair became Prime Minister after a
Five years later, Clinton's successor George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush called into the club on a visit to the UK with Blair and his wife Cherie.[6][7] In June 2007, Blair announced his resignation from the same stage as his election victory speech 10 years earlier, to a crowd of local Labour supporters and anti-war protesters.[8] He returned the next year to make a speech in support of Gordon Brown, who was elected Prime Minister after Blair's resignation.[2]
Demise
In 2010, three years after Blair
References
- ^ "Labour Club, Trimdon". Cyclex. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Trimdon Labour Club closes down". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Last orders at Trimdon". Club Historians. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Trimdon Labour Club closed". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ a b "History of Tony Blair". GOV.UK. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- ^ "Trimdon, his beginning and his end". The Daily Mirror. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Bush visit ends with Pub and protests". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Tony Blair's Sedgefield send-off". BBC News. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "How Blair failed the Working Man". The New Statesman. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ Pidd, Helen (15 September 2019). "'People have lost faith': support for Labour ebbs away in Blair's Sedgefield". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 April 2020.