Barbary Coast - Page 3

Royboy39 · 14-06-2008, 20:08

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Originally Posted by Less

I think pendy you might mean the Dunn Horse, but I can't be sure I always went to the Wheatsheaf!

It was the Dunn Horse............One you've missed......Samse's Vaults.
Landlady 'Nancy'....Would worry rats.

cashman · 14-06-2008, 22:34

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

.......One you've missed......Samse's Vaults.
Landlady 'Nancy'....Would worry rats.

samses worried cashy, floor was very hard after numerous white wines.

Mancie · 16-07-2008, 19:30

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Originally Posted by cashman

not if you had a degree in armed robbery.

didn't really class that as on the "Coast" although the steps were very painful to bounce down.

To my eternal shame I was a bit of a regular at the Tophat when very young..only late club me and my mate could get in!..I recall on of the numerous times the council or whomever tried to close it down..they had to re-apply for a drinks licence and the only way round it was to serve food...they did it by serving Hollands pies in a basket with a lettuce leaf!..I'm not joking!

Royboy39 · 16-07-2008, 20:46

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Originally Posted by Mancie

To my eternal shame I was a bit of a regular at the Tophat when very young..only late club me and my mate could get in!..I recall on of the numerous times the council or whomever tried to close it down..they had to re-apply for a drinks licence and the only way round it was to serve food...they did it by serving Hollands pies in a basket with a lettuce leaf!..I'm not joking!

Cyril Kenyon....always one step ahead of the law..now lives in Thailand. Harry Fenwick comes to mind.

Mancie · 16-07-2008, 20:53

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Cyril Kenyon....always one step ahead of the law..now lives in Thailand. Harry Fenwick comes to mind.

yes I remember Cyril..the times I first went there it was a DJ that played mostly Tamla Mowtown stuff.. this is the early 70's... but up to the 80's it was still the place to go as you were pretty sure to get entry (and as Cashy says if not carefull a quick exit down the stairs) while the other clubs were more fussy.

Alan Gilmartin · 17-07-2008, 10:11

I know this is a bit off the Barbary Coast, but I thought I would put it on this thread, Ive been told the old Woolworths building in Blackburn, or its facade has been demolished, What has gone up in its place, I thought it would have been a listed building. Any photos anybody.

MargaretR · 17-07-2008, 10:21

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Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin

I know this is a bit off the Barbary Coast, but I thought I would put it on this thread, Ive been told the old Woolworths building in Blackburn, or its facade has been demolished, What has gone up in its place, I thought it would have been a listed building. Any photos anybody.

I was surprised too - it was very art deco with a style like the Midland Hotel at Morecambe.
I last went past the building site about 2 weeks ago and nothing had been built there yet. Looks like the widescale demolition is still happening.

cashman · 17-07-2008, 10:31

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Originally Posted by Mancie

yes I remember Cyril..the times I first went there it was a DJ that played mostly Tamla Mowtown stuff.. this is the early 70's... but up to the 80's it was still the place to go as you were pretty sure to get entry (and as Cashy says if not carefull a quick exit down the stairs) while the other clubs were more fussy.

remember the "Blue Star Combo" being resident up the top hat fer a while, a very good local band, a guy i know well was the drummer.

jaysay · 17-07-2008, 10:53

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Originally Posted by cashman

remember the "Blue Star Combo" being resident up the top hat fer a while, a very good local band, a guy i know well was the drummer.

If I remember right cashy didn't one of the Combo die, I think it may have been the drummer, but not sure.
On the Top Hat, I think Cyril also had a place in Colne as well, right in the centre

cashman · 17-07-2008, 11:23

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Originally Posted by jaysay

If I remember right cashy didn't one of the Combo die, I think it may have been the drummer, but not sure.
On the Top Hat, I think Cyril also had a place in Colne as well, right in the centre

not the drummer mate, unless he died since last week, hes the guy i know well, was talking to him outside oddies,

cottontownkid · 27-07-2008, 01:04

i was a frequent visitor to the Top Hat or flat cap as it was known locally remember being welcomed by the scarfaced glass eyed bouncer. they had a group on on saturday nights called the Blue Star Combo and strippers on a sunday lunchtime allegedly one lunchtime a customer got slightly carried away and tried to mount a stripper no doubt the security staff would have swiftly dealt with him. As for Blackburn Centre today the Old Bank is still open under another name during the day as is the Dun Horse now call Zed bar or something the only old type pub that i know is the Swan the Soamses Vaults is now a pop pub, the most popular daytime pubs seem TO BE The PostaL Order (Wetherspoon) and the Merchants aka Last Orders though i am tol the St. Johns Tavern is also popular regards to all

Peter Ashworth · 12-07-2010, 22:10

Yes the Barbary coast was a good night. We used to start off in The Legs Of Man (this pub did not open on Sundays because it was on Cathedral grounds) followed by The County,Wine Lodge, Dun Horse, Wheatsheaf then followed by The Old Bank

cashman · 12-07-2010, 22:43

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Originally Posted by Peter Ashworth

Yes the Barbary coast was a good night. We used to start off in The Legs Of Man (this pub did not open on Sundays because it was on Cathedral grounds) followed by The County,Wine Lodge, Dun Horse, Wheatsheaf then followed by The Old Bank

now thats summat thats bugging me fer yonks, the "Legs" what brewery owned it? the infamous Bob Cotton used to frequent it in my day.

Greenwellies Church · 12-07-2010, 23:09

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Couldn't agree more Wynonie, I use to go in the Old Bank quite a lot the Landlord was a mate of mine, He was called Jeff Edwardson, he moved to Accy and had a couple of pubs in the Town, I think one was the Antley but I'm not sure

You are right jaysay Jeff did have the Antley

Barrie Yates · 12-07-2010, 23:36

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Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin

Used to spend a lot of time in those pubs when I was a full time student at Blackburn Tech, they were very handy just around the corner from the Mecca. Yates Wine Lodge, The paint stripper they sold ( Australian Plonk ). Are they all gone now??. There was a knife shop there called Little Sheffield. Lionel Morton had a boutique in Mincing lane I think it was . We used to go in the Vulcan a lot. I suppose a lot of the pubs have gone now, Star & Garter, Adelphi , White Bull, There was a Chinese Restaurant Called the Yinn Kinn above the new Market Hall, The St Johns Tavern was a favourite with the mods. Reid'ys record shop in Penny St. God all this sends shivers up my spine.

Alan - was the Vulcan just up from the Tech College - Thwaites house and Big Ben on draught at Christmas - don't know how i managed my ONC there.
Which was the pub opposite Yates's that had a piano up on the wall?