After the War the club carried on as before. Membership of the men’s
club, which did not necessarily mean regular attendance, was some
300, and of the boys’club about 80 to 100, who used the club
frequently.
Under Mr. Briant, the caretakers acted as stewards, one on each side
of the club, and other leadership came from the men’s committee and,
on the boys’side, from a certain amount of voluntary help. Events were
mainly sporting and indoor games, and the expenses of running the
club were met partly by members’ contributions and special efforts and
partly by Mr. Briant and his connections.
It was about this time too that Frank Briant assisted Lord Arnold to
found and run the Arnold-Briant Camp at Deal, a pioneer summer
holiday camp for local people, particularly organised parties of school
children. This camp continued up to 1939 and since the second war
has developed into the South London Family Camp which has its
separate organisation, in which Alford House still plays a part.