nelson imp

[wadey]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Quite right wadey, was a really good local, just what local pubs were all about, it was like a little community on its own, kick one they all limped, some good traditions too like the annual pilgrimage to the rising bridge club on new years day to renew your subs, sadly that's gone too

Photo here

Rising Bridge Working Men's Club (Now a private house) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by cashman

thank god iv'e actually found someone who remembers,i know i used to drink copious amounts but i was thinking i was hallucinating lol.accy con was also a great monday night in the early-mid 60s

I posted on this much earlier but it must still be in cyberspace. Would have got the T-shirt Cashy if they did them in the mid 50s. As an apprentice in Burnley, lots of the lads and lots & lots of the girls lived that area, so it was a natural place to go - Burnley Empress as well.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

Would have got the T-shirt if they had them in those days Cashy - mid 50s for me, working in Burnley lots of the other apps, and lots & lots of the girls lived up that way.

Twas this Barrie "Post29" aint in cyberspace, perhaps you are?

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by wadey

Photo here

Rising Bridge Working Men's Club (Now a private house) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Thanks wadey, I've actually seen photos of it before, Jen sent me some a while ago, its a shame really it was a nice little club, but when it was snowing or icy under foot very hard to get to and even harder to leave, the road was very steep, especially when you had a few under the belt

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

Twas this Barrie "Post29" aint in cyberspace, perhaps you are?

Well plastic Mancs usually are cashy

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by wadey

Photo here

Rising Bridge Working Men's Club (Now a private house) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

The chap who owned the house a few years ago, maybe he still does, was a very good carpenter and panneler. He did a chimney breast wall in an old house I owned a while back and did a great job with the panels looking like something out of a great hall.
I went to his house to pay him and he had made a fantastic job of refurbishing it.

[talentedbutslow]

My brother used to hire a 20 seater bus every Saturday night to go to the Nelson Imp mostly.Everybody met outside the Odeon and there were usually a few spare seats for passers by who decided to come too.
Great memories of the place and the groups. Never did see the Hollies there but saw them at Burnley Mecca, but we enjoyed Gerry and the Pacemakers,Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders,Freddie and the Dreamers(a great stage act and very funny),Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Cat Stevens and many more.
Once or twice we bypassed the Imp and headed for Liverpool...we saw Hermans Hermits at the Cavern,The Searchers(my fav group) at the Iron Door Club and we also saw a very young Cilla Black singing there.
Happy memories of days that will never return.

[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by cashman

Twas this Barrie "Post29" aint in cyberspace, perhaps you are?

Perhaps past my bedtime Cashy

[wadey]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

The chap who owned the house a few years ago, maybe he still does, was a very good carpenter and panneler. He did a chimney breast wall in an old house I owned a while back and did a great job with the panels looking like something out of a great hall.
I went to his house to pay him and he had made a fantastic job of refurbishing it.

Correct, in fact the house was featured on a TV "house" type programme, think they had a buisness on Carrs Industrial Estate

[cashman]

Originally Posted by talentedbutslow

My brother used to hire a 20 seater bus every Saturday night to go to the Nelson Imp mostly.Everybody met outside the Odeon and there were usually a few spare seats for passers by who decided to come too.
Great memories of the place and the groups. Never did see the Hollies there but saw them at Burnley Mecca, but we enjoyed Gerry and the Pacemakers,Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders,Freddie and the Dreamers(a great stage act and very funny),Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Cat Stevens and many more.
Once or twice we bypassed the Imp and headed for Liverpool...we saw Hermans Hermits at the Cavern,The Searchers(my fav group) at the Iron Door Club and we also saw a very young Cilla Black singing there.
Happy memories of days that will never return.

a guy used to run one from odeon to blackpool mecca in 60s TaL that wasn't yer brother also was it?

[talentedbutslow]

Can,t remember ever going there ....no,but then again I didn,t go every week.

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by wadey

Correct, in fact the house was featured on a TV "house" type programme, think they had a buisness on Carrs Industrial Estate

He had just about finished the house when I was last in it Bob so it must have been before the TV program, I very rarely watch TV and didn't know the program was on.
If Carrs Industrial Estate is the one off the Haslingden by-pass that's where he had his work shop then.

[wadey]

That's it, think it was Spring Vale Mill

[Redraine]

I can still hear to this day the Searchers singing "Needles and Pins(Ah)" at th'Imp. The only other thing I remember about that night is trying to detach the girls from their mates and the piles of handbags they had on the floor.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Redraine

I can still hear to this day the Searchers singing "Needles and Pins(Ah)" at th'Imp. The only other thing I remember about that night is trying to detach the girls from their mates and the piles of handbags they had on the floor.

Like you Redraine, the one i remember was "Big D.Irwin" -Swinging On A Star, n he apologised cos the lady that sang wi him on the hit, was not yon,cos she was on a tour of her own, so he had to do it solo, the lady actually on the record was "Little Eva"