Bellingham
Ex-Servicemen's Club
Since 1933
OUR STORY
The Club was formed on the 3rd May 1933 as the Bellingham British Legion Club and you can see the orginal document here .
The club has a large Garden of Remembrance to the side of the club and in 1936 a commemoration of the departed and the opening of sailors corner, know as the Navy Corner, in the garden of remembrance as seen in the video below
The Club then changed its name on the 29th December 1960 to the Bellingham Ex Servicemens Club Limited. The orginal document can be seen here .
Skip forward to the 27th July 1976 and another name change to the Bellingham Ex- Servicemens & Social Club the orginal document can be seen here
The Club on the 8th September 2017 changed from the old Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 to the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014
With a name of Bellingham Ex- Servicemens Club Limited
The document can be seen here with the rules of the club
In April 2007 Members
of the Bellingham
Ex-Servicemens Club, Allerford Road, Catford, formed a committee to organise a memorial event for the sinking of the HMS Hood which happened on the 24th May 1941.
The committee comprises of Tony Green, Sue Ireland, Ian and Sherry Bowdery, Peter Wildish, Michael Lakin and Roy Humphreys
Club members were inspired to hold the event after Mr Green discovered an old letter a few months ago.
Bellingham Ex- Servicemens club members thought a memorial service would be a fitting tribute with an unveiling of an HMS Hood memorial plaque in the Garden of Remembrance.
Further information about the HMS Hood can be found here
Click here to see the News Shopper article published on 26th April 2007.
Click here to see another article published on the 3rd June 2011.
Since 2007 this memorial service as become an important part of the the Bellingham Ex Servicemens club calendar along with our annual remembrance day service in November and remembering VE Day VJ Day
The Bellingham Ex Servicemens club epitomise "lest we forget"