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I found this thread doing a search for the Arcadian ballroom. I “haunted” the place 1957-1962 and was on the staff for a year or two. I did the cloakroom and took learners on for the price of my admittance! Cliff and Elena Davidson ran it then. Jim Hacking used to be on the door and was resident DJ.
I was searching “Google” because I was trying to remember the Lennie and the Teenbeats line up! I remember Lennie,Dave Tomlinson,Pete Flately and Vinnie Shaw. Were there any more??
I went up there every day apart from Wednesdays and Saturdays when I went the Accy Con (occasionally branched out to King Georges Hall or Nelson Imp!)
Cliff was a keeper of the morals and a matchmaker in his own way! What a character! If he did not approve of the boy I was dating he would not give me a pass out to go to the pub up the road, I would have to pay again to come in!! He often gave me a lift home in that classic sports car of his. Occasionally I got a lift from Jim who had a motorbike. He lived opposite me on Chestnut Grove (Fern Gore estate) .. Cliff smoked those weird perfumed cigarettes, cant remember what they were called?? He went on to develop emphysema and they moved to Devon. I received Christmas cards from Elena for years. Cliff died not long after they moved. I last saw Elena in 2004,she was then a very old lady and her eyesight was failing. I would love to know what has happened to her.
Cliff used to give me money every week to buy the Top 10 ,heaven!! He also gave them back to me when they fell out of favour. I wish I had kept them. I would be interested to hear other memories. I moved to Blackpool in 1980 and now spend a lot of time in Spain. I often spend New years Eve at the Poplar Club with old friends and its like coming home. I met Lennie there two years ago after not seeing him since I was 19!! I thought he had worn well!