With just days left to save historic British icon, the strongmen and women vowing to fight to the end Photos of strongmen decorate the bare brick walls above frames full of gold medals - blackened by the passage of time.
Men and women with flexed muscles and puffed cheeks, straining to push huge iron dumbbells over their heads, have been a familiar sight at the legendary Bethnal Green Weightlifting Club for a century.
Established after the First World War in a nearby building to give soldiers something to do, the world renowned club has produced hundreds of champions and legendary lifters.
Head coach Martin Bass points to some of the pictures on the walls, as he tells The Mirror: “Thousands of people have passed through this gym in the last 100 years and some have written their names in the history of weightlifting.
For the drafty hall in the heart of London’s East End - probably the oldest powerlifting club in the country - is under threat.
