In the late summer of 1919, business as usual was resumed. Indeed, the minutes of the now-restored monthly meetings of the general committee convey a desire to pick up the pre-War threads as quickly as possible, the buzz and urgency coming through from the pages being tangible.

A brief history cannot do justice to the events of a Club as large and as active as Cartha Athletic Club then was. And as with other large organisations much of the real business was conducted in the committees of each of the sections, any minutes of which are lost.

Many of the general committee minute entries are, of course, mundane, dealing with the administration of the Club. Much such business was recorded on many occasions, and appears not to have varied significantly over the years, right up to the present!

Maintenance of the clubhouse was an ongoing drain on resources, while the whole inter-War period reveals the subject of unpaid subscriptions being raised year after year.

Other entries however reflect the contemporary era. For many years farmers paid the Club to graze horses and sheep on the grounds over the summer to keep down the grass. Dumbreck Road was widened in 1921 which, if subsequent minutes can be reasonably interpreted, led to flooding and related subsidence on the area alongside the road – problems which were resolved only eighty years later with the recent development work!

The Club was sued for damages by a Mr Shanks, whose car collided with one of the aforementioned horses, which was killed.

A putting green was laid out in front of the clubhouse, with a charge of 2d per round. There were complaints about alcohol being consumed ‘to the annoyance of Lady Members’.

The club treasurer Mr Liston ‘agreed to interview the rector of Hutcheson’s’ regarding the school’s use of the grounds.

Mr Martindale, a molecatcher, was engaged at ‘6/- for the season’.

The House Convenor spoke to the Lady Convenor about improving the Summer Teas!

A telephone was installed in early 1931. Old tram seats replaced deck chairs for the summer of 1932.

In March 1933 it was agreed that members should be urged ‘to buy as many cigarettes as possible’ from the cigarette machine to improve funds.

In 1937 there was a proposal to celebrate the Jubilee of the Club ‘formed in 1888’. In the event it was celebrated (correctly) with a Dinner in March 1939.