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Originally Posted by Judith Addison
The former Liberal Club in Eagle Street was the Arts Club for many years before it became Lah-de-Dars night club and now the Gladstone House flats. The Registrar's is indeed in the former Mechanics' Institute. Also on Willow Street was the Baptist Sunday School which became a function suite and then a night club. I'm trying to think what it was called in the 1980s - it was a well-known venue then for 21st birthday parties, etc. It was the building facing the top of Birch Street. I think it was last called "Opium" before it closed as a night club. May be part of the flats now?
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Thats correct Judith, Just after the war, the old liberals had a reading room, and my husband used to deliver the Telegraph and Manchester Evening News night papers there. The Arts club was there then. Was the building owned by the Liberals, or could the Arts Club have been renting from them, or would it have been jointly owned at that time?.