Although having to close during the lockdown period, Mardons Social Club is focusing on the positives and looking to come back even better when it can re-open.

With that in mind, Mardons have taken the decision to invest thousands in a brand new, state of the art projector, to ensure its guests can have the best experience possible when watching sporting events. The club's existing lamp-based projector has been replaced by a laser projector. The new device offers 6,000-lumen brightness and pin-sharp image quality, which gives crisp images and bright colours, even in well-lit rooms. Its exceptional Full HD picture quality should make for excellent viewing and will be a genuine asset for Mardons.

The sports coverage provided by the social club has been particularly well supported in recent months with the venue nearly reaching its newly restricted and socially distanced capacity on some games. The club has been able to show multiple games on both its big screen and various TVs, and the committee is now looking into the possibility of relocating the existing projector and screen to further enhance its offering.

It's hoped that following the period of lockdown the club can return to its socially distanced 'new normal' and embrace the fact that, whilst you may still not be able to visit stadiums to watch your chosen sports and support your favourite teams, you might still be able enjoy them live on the big screen ... fingers crossed!

An end to the leaks at last?

As many of you will know, the social club has been at the mercy of the elements since it opened back in 2015 – with the ceiling suffering ongoing leaks from the floors above whenever the area was hit by severe downpours. Numerous attempts to get the issue rectified had proven ineffective, and earlier this year the club turned to local MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg to enlist his support.

Consequently, the club was visited by the site director and an independent contractor, to formulate a plan to investigate and correct any faults.

A short while later, builders arrived and erected scaffolding to fix a long-term guttering problem. Two other sets of builders were on site – one took core samples from the ceiling inside to trace the path of the leaks, the other removed the patio doors from the floor above (the potential source of the leaks).

The suspected fault was traced and after working all day on the job, they found and fixed a number of related issues.

Mardons Social Club would like to extend its sincere thanks to Mr Rees-Mogg for his intervention and to both Linden Homes and the independent contractor for their efforts to resolve these long-standing problems.

The club is now hopeful that this winter it will stay dry inside and that the incessant dripping and sodden ceiling tiles will be a thing of the past – but obviously time will tell!

Before lockdown the club is going to be offering Bath Gem, Doombar & Guinness at £3 per pint to members.

They added : " We know another lockdown isn't what any of us wanted, but we would like to thank all our customers for their support at this difficult time in keeping our club going, supporting us, and abiding by the ever changing rules."