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rick wrote:-

> Ahh, someone has recommended I hire the polish club for my birthday
> this year, any good?  I've never been there. What's the beer like?!
> Would it be well suited to a crayzee fancy dress party?

We've used the polish club for our christmas bash here at Films for a few years 
now.  It's what I would call a 'blank palette' upon which you can paint your own 
  occasion.  It's a bit bare-bones and village hall, but we just take a load of 
decorations down there and spiffy it up a bit.

You can easily fit a disco or live band in (they have a stage) and they also 
have a projector if you want to get all video-dj.

I don't think fancy dress would faze them in the slightest.

The bar, as mentioned, does a lot of vodka; they don't have any real ale (there 
might be fizzy John Smiths on draft), but they do have the polish rocket fuel 
known as 'Zwieck' (or somesuch; can't spell it, can't say it :-) ).  This 
bottled beer is usually ice cold, and most certainly does the trick quite 
efficiently, if you know what I mean.  Prices are normal, straying towards cheap.

Downsides?  The gents is at the bottom of the stairs by the main door, and they 
can whiff a bit, but for the price, the size, and the 'not getting ripped off by 
the bar', you don't really notice.  The other thing is that some of our more 
'meedja' members of staff feel it is not in keeping with their station as 
craftspeople working on quality television entertainment, but then that's a self 
selection mechanism and they're boring anyway :-)  ie, if you've got some 
friends who fancy themselves a bit posh, they won't like it at all.

PS: the other random thing is that the club, even when rented out, is still open 
to members.  In days gone past, this meant a couple of old chaps sat at the end 
of the bar; in recent years, a few more younger and livelier lads have turned 
up, but they're all well behaved.

Hope that helps...

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Cheers,

Mike

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