Alwiyah club (Baghdad City) | social club

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this is Alwiyah club- one of the best elite social clubs of Baghdad,opened in 1921,it was always crowded,now you can see its empty !!! peolpe who came to this club are mostly outside IRAQ now...but waiting to return to our beautiful Baghdad.
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Coordinates:   33°18'47"N   44°25'14"E

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  • omg i love 8awa al wiyh club :(
  • a7la makan walla......
  • all my memoreis
  • I was in baghdad in 2010-2011 and enjoyed at alwiyah with vian ehea baban and her family.it was fun
  • Please make a club in uganda and make it a branch of alwiyah club baghdad
  • I was born in Baghdad in 1950 and my parents often visited the Alwiyah Club - I remember its three pools where I learned to swim, Bingo on the lawn, the red metal climbing frame, and the the snacks we ate - plates of crisps or chips with tomato ketchup. I remember delicious meals in the dining room and my mother used to act in plays and pantomimes with the Tigris Players. I'm back in the UK now, my father left Baghdad in 1963.
  • played water polo there with team from RAF Habbaniyah 1958, just before the revolution, very upmarket
  • I remember your parents.Tess and Roy Reed. I think you knew my sisters Maureen and Carol Nari. Redmond.
  • I remember your parents.Tess and Roy Reed. You knew my sisters Maureen and carol Nari, I am Redmond and a solicitor in Hove.
  • I was a member here for the six months I worked in Baghdad before my employer, The British Bank of the Middle East, was nationalised in 1964. A great place to socialise with Iraq's and expats.
  • My dad had a job in Baghdad 1968-197o, and I got to be friends with Lydia Mcready (Deedy) , whose father was an employee of the british embassy. Anyways, her parents took me along with them to Alwiyah a couple of times. Of course, the pool!! And Ill never forget the evening movies in the open air cinema, on that big green lawn!!
  • I grew up there my father was the club secretary on the committee in the 70s
  • I was a member in the early eighties. Great place to socialise with Iraqis and expats. Bingo on the lawn and beer! There was also a full size snooker table which was sadly neglected even back then. I remember winning a hugh fridge-freezer at the bingo! As an expat, I had no need for it but a gentleman (who had a furniture factory in Falujah) bought it from me. We became good friends. Happy days.
  • I and my brother were there in the late sixties. I was maybe 7 or 8 years old? My parents have both passed away but Mum used to take us there quite a bit. I also recall the outdoor movies. My Name is Carl Smyth the same as my late Father. It seems an eternity ago now.
  • I was working in Baghdad (WHO) 1970 to 1975. The Alwiyah Club was a lifesaver
  • I was born in Kirkuk in 1955 and lived in Baghdad until 1963. My parents worked for the Iraq Petroleum Company at the time. We often went to the Alwiyah club, where we went swimming and watched films at the open-air cinema. Happy days.
  • Phil - My family lived in Baghdad from 1958 until 1963, having moved there from Basra. My father, Norman Banta, was a geophysicist working for the Iraq Petroleum Company and we had some wonderful times at the Alwiyah Club. I swam a lot in the pools there and was on the Club swimming team. In 1959, when I was 18 years old, the team traveled to Abadan, Iran to compete against the team there and we won every event - such great memories! We knew the Murray and Walsh families who lived in Kirkuk in the IPC housing complex.
  • Upon further reflection, I need to amend my previous comment. I did swim with the Alwiyah Club swim team but the team I went with to Abadan was from Basra. It was an IPC team and we traveled to Abadan in 1958 when I was 17 and just before I moved to Baghdad. Still great memories but certainly a long time ago!
  • Michael Walden. My father lived and worked in Baghdad during the 50’s. H e was with the Posts and Telegraphs part of the government and was seconded by the Marconi Company to set up the broadcasting station at Abu Ghraib. We visited during the school holidays and spent many hours at the Alwiyeh club in the swimming pools and also the outdoor cinema. We lived about a five minute walk away. I remember visiting Orosdibak and Hasso Bros stores in Rashid Street. Baghdad was a delightful place to live during those days.
  • Michael - I remember Orosdibak and Rashid Street, as well. I lived across the bridge in Karradat Meriam, what is now the Green Zone, not too far from the Tigris River.
  • Phil...I remember swimming at the Alwiya Club around 1948- 51...my dad was a brewer for Iraqi Breweries and we lived on site on the banks of the Tigress River...really happy days but long ago memories!
  • Alwiyah Club mid 1970s tie only entrance, swimming pools, restaurant bars, pool table from 1920th, tennis courts, discos, international friends, for Polish student coming from communist Poland to visit his father working in University of Baghdad something completely out of this world. To all nice people of Baghdad my best Wishes for Great Future.
  • Hi Michael my father was working for Marconi in Iraq between 56 and 58 and we lived there with him over that time leaving when the revolution came. I too spent time at the Alwiyeh Club. I am currently writing a book about that time and am interested in sharing memories with anyone else who was there. Would you/ anyone else who was there be willing to talk about this time? Regan
  • Dear all, just discovered some correspondence between my father (Major H.A. Gent) and the Secretary of The Alwiyah Club (who sounds a little "sniffy") in 1943 while he was posted there during WW2. Anybody have parents who were there at the same time? John
  • Please get in touch - my email is almaytha@aol.com
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