She also brings to life the various groupings using the club, the mods, rockers and "Ton-Up Elite" - the latter being "leather-garbed, skid-lidded, zip-booted, with their big, gleaming 650ccs" - and describes the incidents that occurred, from collecting jumble to camping. What comes across is the fun she got out of her work with young people.
Blandy concludes: "The members we catered for needed clubs more than any other section of the youth community, and experience was at last teaching us to give them the kind of club they wanted rather than the kind adults thought they should have." And this is just as relevant for those running clubs today.
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