madam butt`s

[tosh]

just where and what was madam butt`s

 

[MargaretR]

never heard of her - neither has google
.... is this a new quiz question?

 

[tosh]

not a quiz question it may have been a dance hall of some sort,

 

[jaysay]

thats got me tosh, ner heard of that before

 

[Bob Dobson]

This was the dance hall on Knowlmere St which was called The Arcadian Ballroom by the mid-50s and was then run by Cliff and his wife. Butts may have been short for butterworth's. My aunt puts a post-war date on it. I suspect it was pre-war too.The oplace was "th'Arc" to us - a place more refined than Joe Mort's and more upmarket than the dances held in church rooms such as Christ Church

 

[keith]

madam harkers school of dancing church st accrington facing what is now the warners arms was a popular place saturday night you went up a flight of steps and madam harker herself selected the music she worked the record player mostly teenagers just learning to dance and you had to behave yourself no alcoholic drinks served there other times she taught ballet

 

[Royboy39]

This was the dance hall on Knowlmere St which was called The Arcadian Ballroom by the mid-50s and was then run by Cliff and his wife. Butts may have been short for butterworth's. My aunt puts a post-war date on it. I suspect it was pre-war too.The oplace was "th'Arc" to us - a place more refined than Joe Mort's and more upmarket than the dances held in church rooms such as Christ Church

Went there every Saturday night in the fifties.....down to the Australian for an underage pint.....the sky was the limit

 

[tosh]

hi, royboy,
you say you whent to the australian for a underage pint,well what was the name f the pub on the corner of crawshaw st and school st that was a littel lads pub as i can remember.