Night Club

to all the old codgers from the 50s-60s era which was the first night club to open in Wigan ? Golden Clog(king St) Paradise Club (Scholes) or any other suggestions.do not know the answer but it would put my and a few more peoples minds at rest if someone knows the answer

i think it was the paradise

Paradise and King of Clubs, are 2 which spring to my mind.

I used to hear people talking about the Green Curtain ( or something similar) which I think was in Scholes. Was that a nightclub or a pub?

sorry the Green Curtain was just a bar in Millgate although some people said you could get a drink any time of the day whether this was legal or not i don't know

i ll give you owd codgers you cheeky little bugger

You are right there plumbob, when everywhere else shut, the green curtain opened, and it was in millgate a bit further up on the same side as the yachting club

daft question??? why was there a yachting club on Millgate?

Thats what they used to call The Ship.

Maybe the first 'Night Club' was the Green Rooster which was in Vauxhall Road, in Seddons Mill, which was known as the 'Old Stocking Factory'

nogger i think the one in Vauxhall Rd was the Paradise club. Jacqueline you could have called me a cheeky young bugger although i am 63 it would have made me feel better

plumbob your right, Green Rooster died and was reborn as the Paradise, as i see your six years my junior! perhaps it was 'before your time'

I think it was called the Green Cockatoo it did not last long then reopened as the Paradise Club

PLUMBOB YOUR ONLY AS OLD AS YOU FEEL I THOUGHT YOU ERE ONLY ABOUT 40. I REMEMBER THE PARADISE ABOUT 44 YEARS AGO

I am sure it was the King of Clubs. and I am older than the lot of you.

your right the green curtain was in millgate it was a bit of a dive thae macfalane brothers used to spend time in there

were was MUNROE'S

Munroe's bar was round the back of Munroe's Of Licence shop, which was across the road from the top of Makinson's arcade.

Munroe's was across from ship hotel in millgate ( Ring a Bells) what about the Bolshie in,t 50s this was(a day club),

the bolshie was organally a la bour club it was either wigan or central labour club apparently it becameassotiated with with communist party hence the name the bolshie ,it opened at 3oclock when the pubs shut and i remember people calling it the loweside

Keith was it not made into a night club in the 60s, has a young lad I worked in the pit(50s) and had to go on nightshift for a few weeks, and mondays some of the miners would go into Wigan to meet-up they asked me did I wanted togo with them that was my first time in Ship, Bolshie,Munroe's think they called ring a bell

i believe your right never went in as a night club was it called blutos

Bolshie was Wigan Labour Club

Hilton St/Powell St was Wigan Central Labour Club (remember Central Park, to the rear)

Hi Art was only a young lad of 18 thinking I was a man was Munro's know as Ring A Bell
Keith no idea of name had got married by then and everything had to stop LOL

Wigan Labour Club (Bolsie) did turn into a night club Puffers(later on to be called Pemps) and just round the corner was Sloopies, both owned by Barbara Calderbank and to my knowledge both are still operating as clubs to this day but not as the above names

Pemps closed down about two years ago, it opened as Pemps in the early Seventies.

the one on the corner of king st was a lapdancing club(i read it in paper?)
in the 50s it was gees school of dancing

does anybody remeber transport club ? it was down the alley where liquid night club is. i remember going early 60's

what about the Room at the Top
I think it was over the top of the first supermarket in Wigan, Whelans near the bus station.
And wigan casino night club

I think you'll find that Lennons was the first supermarket in Wigan.
The Hippodrome burned down on the 21st April 1956, & Lennons replaced it not long after.
At that time Whelan would have been about 18 years old......how do I know?

We're the same age...

Used to be a club over wallgate station i forgot what it was called.

The club over Wallgate Station was the old Railwaymens club, steepest steps in Wigan!

woodentop, in the photo Bills cap is showing 1895-6 when he would be aged 25-26.Edwards cap for 1906 would be about right as he would then be about 29. Edwards wife was Charlotte Lee, ring any bells?

trust you to notice the steps what was the ale like?if you read this before sunday can you copy what you were telling me about in that rugby paper

While the subject of clubs is being discussed,does anybody remember a club in Scholes called "Bluesville".
I think it was on the left opposite Wellington St.

Before it was Bluesville (the old cinema) used to be The Mask Club, early sixties. I played there with Oggie, did a PJ Proby, split my pants. Had to go home to change, missed the first half of the second spot.

Remember playing The Paradise Club, there were two GO-GO dancers in cages by the stage. Oggie got off with one - and Jimmy, our manager, got off with the other.

Only went to King of Clubs once, with Bob Dewhurst (S.A.I.). He had installed a new PA system for them, I just happened to be with him when he did a courtesy call to check it out. Bob’s house was fantastic, full of gadgets, I saw the first Disco lights there.

Bluesville i remember it well great allnighters