Knowlemere Street dance - Page 6

Feather · 21-09-2010, 15:01

Think I could qualify as an Old Git being there 1958 onwards??? Where would "Arts" come from?? Arcs I can understand? I used to be there practically every day!!One memory was Sunday afternoons when we used to come out of there at the end of the session blinking at the light! Clifford kept the lighting very subdued!! :-)
Wasn´t there a dancer there called Pauline Woods? I can remember being injured by her stiletto heel whilst she was doing a very energetic quickstep!! If you are still out there Pauline, you owe me one!!

cashman · 21-09-2010, 15:31

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Originally Posted by Feather

Think I could qualify as an Old Git being there 1958 onwards??? Where would "Arts" come from?? Arcs I can understand? I used to be there practically every day!!One memory was Sunday afternoons when we used to come out of there at the end of the session blinking at the light! Clifford kept the lighting very subdued!! :-)
Wasn´t there a dancer there called Pauline Woods? I can remember being injured by her stiletto heel whilst she was doing a very energetic quickstep!! If you are still out there Pauline, you owe me one!!

Paulines lived in Canada fer yonks, was oer last year.

Barrie Yates · 21-09-2010, 17:07

This Owd Git always called it Knowlemere St, & just had that confirmed by another attendee from that time :-)))

jaysay · 21-09-2010, 17:52

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Originally Posted by katex

That's probably more attributed to your deaf ear Cashy ...

Nout wrong wi my lugs Kate

cashman · 21-09-2010, 18:10

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Originally Posted by katex

That's probably more attributed to your deaf ear Cashy ...

not really me lugs were fine back then.

jaysay · 21-09-2010, 18:12

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Originally Posted by cashman

not really me lugs were fine back then.

Ya mean you just throw um a deaf un now the cashy

cashman · 27-09-2010, 22:05

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Oh my goodness.......I used to go to Spring Hill.......and remember it just as you have portrayed it.......I suppose it would have been late fifties(or even early sixties) when I went there.
Yes and we were still escorted home!
Romance......not a chance.

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Originally Posted by ossy kid

Blimey that makes three of us, I enjoyed spring hill dances in the late 50s, can,t remember how I got there or got home probably shank,s pony but had some good times.

Only just seen this, used to go yon early 60s, was a very good night no doubt.

60/61 it would be.

jaysay · 28-09-2010, 09:01

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Originally Posted by cashman

Only just seen this, used to go yon early 60s, was a very good night no doubt.

60/61 it would be.

I went there too cashy, was run by a woman and her husband who lived just up the road on the same side, think she was called Mrs Quipp

cashman · 28-09-2010, 10:57

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Originally Posted by jaysay

I went there too cashy, was run by a woman and her husband who lived just up the road on the same side, think she was called Mrs Quipp

once remember a ruck kicking off, just inside the entrance, the guy ended up hiding behind his wife.

sm_counsell · 28-09-2010, 13:37

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Originally Posted by cashman

Only just seen this, used to go yon early 60s, was a very good night no doubt.

60/61 it would be.

Me too, and I can remember the "give us a kiss for Christmas" time.
(we used to practice kissing a mirror before we went )

keith higson · 29-09-2010, 06:35

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Originally Posted by AccyGirl

it used to be a cinema, but became a cabaret club....Frank Ifield, Craig Douglas and many stars from that era appeared there....I worked in the upstairs bar in the evenings, for a little while to earn extra money.......it was great cos I got to see the stars for free...I think the compare was called Mike Shaun..and he stayed in the area for a long time, singing in local pubs..but then went to Spain.....sorry I am going off the subject of Knowlemere St...sorry..

If I recall correctly the cinmea used to be called "The Queens Hall" behind it was an area referred to as The Tanpits. Ah sweet memories

keith higson · 29-09-2010, 06:39

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Originally Posted by keith higson

If I recall correctly the cinema used to be called "The Queens Hall" behind it was an area referred to as "The Tanpits". Ah sweet memories

If I recall correctly the cinema used to be called "The Queens Hall" behind it was an area called "The Tanpits". Ah sweet memories.

davidf · 01-10-2010, 18:50

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Originally Posted by Feather

I always thought it was called " The Arcs...". Short for Arcadium???
Have I been wrong all these years?? we used to say we were going up the Arcs!

I always thought that its other name to Knowlemere Street was the Arcadian Ballroom. I used to go there from time to time in 1959.

Feather · 02-10-2010, 21:43

I was there in 1959 too. We usually said ,we were going "up Knowlmere Street" more than "th´Arcs". But it was known as both. I have seen it spelt both Arcadian and Arcadium.
Whatever!! It was a great place to be and I loved it!! :-)

les stewart · 03-10-2010, 02:57

Off Licence wasn't on Malt Street, it was on the corner of Knowlmere Street and Milnshaw Lane. Chemist was on the corner of Whalley Road and Knowlmere Street, became a wool shop, then Everett's fruit and veg/grocer's shop, which had been at the very bottom of Malt Street where it met Argyle Street. Out side off licence was both a phone box and a mail box. Think the place at the bottom of Malt Street on the left had been a beer bottling plant before the garage took it over