the early years for the club were taken up with local social and community events, regular involvement with morris ring meetings, and privately arranged trips to various locations, though deal, kent was a particular favourite, in the company of westminster morris men, and later joined by the hammersmith morris men. at this time, there were a few dancers that were involved in just about all of these three side's at one time or another. bert cleaver had ended his direct association with woodside when they reached the stage where they were ready to dance out, and subsequently became involved with a few other london sides, and would go on to become squire of the morris ring. another busy morris man was hugh rippon, who at that time was something of a morris firebrand, being involved with all of these teams to some extent, and remains to this day an influential figure on the english folk scene.