Shifters

[longballking]

Can anyone settle an argument please, we were discussing Shifters nightclub over the weekend and couldn't agree when exactly it closed. I was guessing about 1990 but not really sure. Cheers

[davemac]

Mr. Google tells me it was located where Boots and specsavers are located now, and was demolished to make way for the Arndale centre, so finding this information will give a date. If I locate the date I will post.

[Restless]

hm I thought Shifters was AKA Africas/Dolly greys ? mind you I was too young to know any difference haha

[davemac]

Originally Posted by davemac

Mr. Google tells me it was located where Boots and specsavers are located now, and was demolished to make way for the Arndale centre, so finding this information will give a date. If I locate the date I will post.

The date published was that it opened in 1987.

[longballking]

No way! Cheers for that, you're a legend. I must have been well underage when I went in there. I didn't think I started going out regularly till 1988.
As for Africas/Dolly Greys (and I'm sure it was called Funnies before that) that was a totally seperate place. That was next to the railway bridge on Blackburn Road.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by longballking

No way! Cheers for that, you're a legend. I must have been well underage when I went in there. I didn't think I started going out regularly till 1988.
As for Africas/Dolly Greys (and I'm sure it was called Funnies before that) that was a totally seperate place. That was next to the railway bridge on Blackburn Road.

If you are saying I am a legend, you are partially right, I'm more of a leg end.


Also I have a hazy memory of something called Pickwick in that location, or adjacent.

[Restless]

ah yeah of course. Funnies it was

[accyman]

was demolished a few years after the arndale was finished.I dont think it was still standing at the millenium but cant be sure.One of the reasons i didnt spend that new year in accy was because there was sod all left so it probbaly wasnt there or was emty and awaiting demolision


funnies or faces was on union street shifters was called pickwik and rumours beforehand if i recall correctly

[shillelagh]

it was the rumours when i was going in there in 1983/4 ....

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by accyman

was demolished a few years after the arndale was finished.I dont think it was still standing at the millenium but cant be sure.One of the reasons i didnt spend that new year in accy was because there was sod all left so it probbaly wasnt there or was emty and awaiting demolision


funnies or faces was on union street shifters was called pickwik and rumours beforehand if i recall correctly

And the Odeon cinema before that

[Benipete]

Originally Posted by longballking

Can anyone settle an argument please, we were discussing Shifters nightclub over the weekend and couldn't agree when exactly it closed. I was guessing about 1990 but not really sure. Cheers

You are quite right It closed in April Of that year according to my daughter who was never away from the place. I did my best.

[longballking]

Originally Posted by Benipete

You are quite right It closed in April Of that year according to my daughter who was never away from the place. I did my best.

You certainly did, thanks a lot, even providing the month, very precise.

[Whittaker]

Originally Posted by jaysay

And the Odeon cinema before that

i was told it was the Pick wick before the shifters / rumours etc i was not old enough to go in the Pick Wick so not sure

[janloot]

next to the railway bridge for us young uns, "was the big crown"

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Whittaker

i was told it was the Pick wick before the shifters / rumours etc i was not old enough to go in the Pick Wick so not sure

Ya Nick, but was the Odeon when I was a kid, it was the Pickwick in the late sixties early seventies