originally, woodside morris men were intended to remain part of the phoenix folk club, but discussion with a number of early members indicates that the link to the parent club was tenuous from the very start. if it were intended that the membership should originally be drawn from the phoenix club, then such expectations were sadly not met. in march 1965, woodside squire, graham wild, wrote a letter to all members of the team to inform them that, for one week only, the side would be meeting at the railway club, watford, for practice, but not to worry, as practice would return to finchley as soon as possible. as much as this may not have been an intentional first step away from the now only notionally parent club, as well as the area in which the club was formed, a page in the history of woodside morris men had been turned, and there would be no going back. by july of that same year, meetings had been firmly established as taking place at the railway's social club in watford.