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Wigan Casino
Wigan Casino
Photo: bernard
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Item #: 14628
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Comment by: Joan Beckett(Wilding) on 21st April 2010 at 22:27

Great memories x

Comment by: mj on 22nd April 2010 at 09:33

It was still the Empress during the sixties

Comment by: fred foster on 24th April 2010 at 20:04

memories flood back,Dick Stanley's band, Jan Smits the singer, jiving Joe Bertrand, Derek Lynch. Those were the days!!

Comment by: Art on 25th April 2010 at 01:16

I remember Jiver Joe very well, he worked in the PX stores at the American base Burtonwood.
I got a golf iron off him that could be adjusted from 1 to 9. He ended up working at Halls Bread, Buckley St. Last I saw of him..

Comment by: Gerry on 3rd June 2010 at 22:15

The archway was the entrance to the beachcomber club this was a club for the under 18s only orange and pepsi on sale here we had some great live bands too, my friend Maurice Furlong from Ince played Bass Guitar in one of them but I cant remember the name of his grouip

Comment by: linda (massa) on 19th February 2011 at 13:28

New Year's Eve in the 60's. Big band sound, the sprung floor, packed in like sardines. Got a new red dress for Christmas from Joan Barries. The day after I met the lad I was courting in town and the white shirt and his vest had turned pink, the dye had come out of my dress and so it went back to the shop. Memories. Can someone turn the clock back.

Comment by: dave johnson on 21st October 2011 at 13:13

Gerry, the entrance to the Beachcomber was in the middle opposite the door into the "Emp Cafe" It was originally a snooker hall

Comment by: Philip Kendrick on 19th September 2013 at 07:38

The Beachcomber was a great place and my M8 Mike Rawlinson (AKA ROLLO) later to be a DJ at the Casino and MrMs got me started on my life long affair with SOUL music god bless you Mike

Comment by: Dave Hitchen on 16th October 2013 at 23:22

I remember Mike Rawlinson he went to Wigan Grammar School when I was there, didn't know he went on to be a DJ though!

Comment by: Johnny Peters on 21st May 2014 at 08:21

I remember the Casino(th'Emp) when I first went. There was a cafe next door were everyone would meet. A resident big band played and several groups would appear in various parts of the dance hall. Also a DJ played the top ten during intervals. What a great place to pull girls ;-)

Comment by: Dud. Lyon on 22nd January 2015 at 21:14

Waited on table late 1965 for 6 months,served drinks to Dusty Springfield ,gorgeous! .Was sent down to Beachcomber to protect Manfred Mann from the mad hordes of teenagers, got ripped to bits.

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