Share on Pinterest Easy places to crash a party I seem to recall. Both Scamps and Hofbrauhaus had strippers on during the day at one time or another. The Hull Times ran an article in July 1971 regarding the Bailey Organisation's latest and largest night-spot; Bailey's at Hull. Site re-opened as a pub (?) Owner Malcolm Backhouse of South Cave had known there was a demand for this type of entertainment for some years. The main entrance to Montagues was via No.1 Bishop Lane whilst the downstairs dancefloor was the former No.2 Bishop Lane, the original entrance to No.2 being used as a fire escape. There was a very large Bouncer called Dennis. There is says Peter Croskill, manager and part share owner in one of Hulls smaller town centre discos a certain amount of misunderstanding, as so many places of ill repute are associated with discos. The first of a number of clubs to occupy this site from 1990 onwards, which sadly involved the partial destruction of this section of a wonderful Georgian terrace. I am grateful to Paul Rusling for contacting me with the following resume: -'Baileys should have been in the phone book - it had a 5 line switchboard and the number was 24000. manned 24 hours a day, Baileys had an all night watchman and female receptionists by day. Still running in 1989 but converted to the Paradise Club in 1989-90. Graham Hardy remembers it was still open circa 1979. Not sure if this was a mobile or not Local Gareth Watkins remembered it was ran by Hulls hippies and moved around, but Im not sure what the inference is there? For, say 8 you can have a full evenings entertainment of music and lights for your party, with the music to suit your own or your guests varied tastes. It cost 10p to get in and smelt mostly of patchouli oil. Prices as stated on the card in 1969 were as follows: Thursdays 3 shillings, Fridays and Saturdays 5 shillings, Sundays 3 shillings. Tower Nightclub & Restaurant, 52 Anlaby Road. Tel 07792 768202 Paul Taylor was a regular, and he recalls: - 'Kestral on Charlotte Street Mews opened 1970 and the dance floor was on the 1st floor. [the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1982) describes a discotheque as a club, caf etc.,where records are played for dancing]. So why then at 9.50 in the evening, were there no men on the dancing space at all I wondered? Listed as a social club and changed to No.11 South Street from 1962 - I just love that name. May have been an early name for what became the Bier Keller, as remembered by my cousin Steve Worner of sixties group the Five Trax. These appeared for the first time in the telephone directories in 1971 although I suspect they existed earlier. Hartlepool firm Camerons Brewery were also in a dilemma as they were due to submit details on turning the Dingwalls venue into a pub before the Hull City Council Planning Committee on January 11. Mole, who had run The Discotheque in Whitefriargate - he was also an antiques dealer. This marked possibly the beginning of the new breed of discos, a mobile event rather than a static club? Somewhere to go and not much else to do. 42, George Street, went up in smoke in the early hours of Sunday, January 8, 1984, when a fire broke out just after the club. Late in 1993 it joined with Quigleys to create the Oasis Club and is now [2001] part of Club Zen. First listed in 1982 in the entertainments section of the Yellow Pages, taking over the Scamps/Hofbrauhaus premises. Hull Daily Mail - read now online on YUMPU News Magazine flat rate Subscription Read digitally YUMPU News digital subscription - 30 days free trial! etc. University of Hull-Students Union, Cottingham Road. Our latest CARE INSPECTORATE unannounced inspection report you can download your copy HERE. Although now a legend in its own lifetime, the Adelphi began life as a working mens club. Did it have anything to do with the Corn Exchange pub? We also put the latest news in our Instagram Stories. Club Sahara and Quigleys joined forces to create one of Hulls rather down market night-clubs in late 1993. For discos are now more than just rooms in which to dance, with records booming away in the background. However, Graham Hardy has a different take: - 'I dont actually remember the Barracuda but do recall seeing a photograph of, from the Lowgate end, from what I can recall, would suggest that the Barracuda was on the opposite side to the Bishop Lane Club and was very near tothe Lowgate end. At the moment he finds what all the other DJs I spoke to find that what pleases the majority is the Motown sound. 1950s crooners often found themselves in poll place alongside the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Cream and The Rolling Stones. Hull Entertainment Guide- Issue No.8 April 1948, Vogue Publicity Co., 6 Bond St. Formerly the Ocean 11 Club. Another regular venue in the 1950s and 1960s for ballroom dancing etc. However, it never seems to have been listed in the telephone directories, unless it was classed as a pub - everyone knows it was in the old Skylines premises, so where was it recorded? AB15 5HY, Tuesday 18/10: The Land Before Time Dinosaur Day (fossil making, dinosaur dig excavation, lava slime), Friday 21/10: Pumpkin Art (pumpkin painting, slime making and cinnamon pumpkin pie baking), Wednesday 26/10: Halloween paper mach Art, Thursday 27/10: Halloween themed games and crafts, Friday 28/10: PJ + Movie with Hot Chocolate and Marshmallows. And as Peter Croskill says young people do seem to have more money than they used to. The former cinema was the place to go when the city's pubs closed, and has had a long. But who are the people who frequent the discos the people who are Hulls night owls and who are just starting to wake up when most of us are going to sleep? As with many clubs, the Welly was also a place you could see local bands. I have mentioned some in the gazetteer to get us started, mostly taken from Hull Jazz & Jazzmen by Laurie Dex. Ticket for Scamps nightclub (loaned to us by Rob Goldberg thanks Rob!). See below right. That had been a gambling place at some time, it still had blackjack and roulette tables when I first went in, in 1968. Published by at June 30, 2022. The Stones, Philip Norman. I can't remember the name of the owner, a small neat man with a bit of a presence, or his girlfriend, whoput on regular dancing displayswith her partner in what would nowadays not go amiss in Strictly. It was a place you went after going round town and where you could get a drink after pub closing hours. Listed concurrently with Locarno. part of the back of Albert Chambers. Listed as a night-club for the first time in the telephone directory of 1992. Who remembers a popular night venue for clubbers and partygoers which met a sudden demise after it was ravaged by fire? A double site coupled with Annabellas, and both owned by the Mecca Group. Tony stresses it is essential to establish a communication between the disc jockey and the audience; There has got to be feed back; if the disc jockey doesnt communicate it will not be a success, he says, - and one wrong record could destroy an atmosphere its taken half and hour to build up. Noted as a Sunday night concert stage that occasionally featured jazz bands, but you could dance Mid 1970s? Part of the Manchester Hotel and a very cool place to go in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Still there in 1991, as the photo below was taken in that year. Became Oasis 2000 in 2000 and is now [2001] Club Zen. My memory of it really is as a coffee bar. In 1970 plans were submitted for an extension to the Bishop Lane Club which involved the development of former property in Stewarts Yard, to the south of the original buildings of No.2 Bishop Lane. Join Scamp Club Animals of all sorts can join the ScampClub. They saw the need for a smaller venue and opened the Brick House in April 1971, which also opened during the day with a shop and a caf where records could be listened to. Located on the north side of Spring Bank somewhere according to Graham Wilkinson. I seem to remember foreign seaman, prostitutes etc. Some parents have taken their younger children to a disco and collected them again later when they had enjoyed an evening out themselves. Anyone remember Scamps? Hofbrauhaus later became Dingwalls the music venue and Scamps became Oddessy. Knowing what sort of entertainment they want when theyve paid their entrance fee is the work of the disc jockey people like Dave Sanders, at 20 very au-fait with the 18 to 25 year olds who are the discos most frequent customers; and who moves from being an office clerk by day to a DJ at one of the towns smaller discos by night. Despite a great line up of acts the venue closed later the same year Christmas eve 1971 saw the last gig and it closed completely in January 1972; as an unlicensed venue (never likely to get a licence in a former Methodist Hall) it was a risk, and also had problems with Hells Angels, which probably hastened its demise. Some of the Hull Jazz music clubs proved to be long-standing, such as those held at the Corn Exchange, the Haworth Arms (known as the Phase Two Club by the late 60s) and the George Hotel (corner of Walton Street), which enjoyed a boom in interest in the 1970s. Historically this had been the site of the Hope & Anchor pub. For 17 year old Terry Baynes its the atmosphere that draws; Its more lively, there is more happening. Later to become another venue - Ku2. I have still got my membership card with nice sillouette figure on the front. Pepper`s place, i.e. the Beverley Road Baths had also been a popular ballroom dancing venue in the 1950s and 1960s. It ran as a regular late night coffee club and disco after 10:30, when the resident DJ was Jeff Bunting. Took over, from what had been Olivers, in 1990 and was an excellent rough and tumble place. Nos.1 and 2 High Street were part of a group of buildings, which also included the former Dunwells Forge next door on High Street. The scene on George Street in Hull, day after a fire ripped through the Oddessy Disco and Dingwalls Bar in the city. Hopes to another home for the Oddessy were raised in September 1984, as discussions were held for a partnership with Wally Mays at the Tower Nightclub, but these fell through by December of the same year. Want to help keep the Archive going? Still listed in 1987 but gone by 1988. Paul and Graham dont mind turning out for the evening in gear very different from their normal working clothes. White Boy Singin the Blues; The Black Roots of White Rock, Michael Bane. Noted for the first time in 1963 as the Wellington Social Club, under clubs, social & general but was probably more of a working mens club until its new lease of life in the late 1970s (?) But even so it doesnt make us wish we were single again. I mean in theory I know the date it opened - I have a file on it if only I could find it, I saw it recently. Noted for the first time in the telephone directory of 1961 under Dancing, Ballroom and later probably became the Top Rank Club, circa 1966. The Waterfront Club opened circa 1979 in a converted warehouse to acclaim from all sections of the community and after a near disastrous fire was still going strong in 2001. Clearly, the telephone book would only list the venues that actually had a telephone, so there must have been many more, but by 1961 two more. Its manager, former Waterfront operator Peter OBrien, headed the team of 25 staff, opening hours were 9pm to 1.45pm, Tuesday to Saturday with Monday nights available for private hire. which burnt down under allegedly suspicious circumstances back in the 1980s. Flamingo Coffee Club & Casino, 106 Londesborough Street. The Young People's Institute also held ballroom dancing nights, with regular bands - Tommy Fisher, Ken Brookes, and Louis Gold. was it to do with licensing hours? Neither was listed after 1972 and it became Tiffanys in 1973. Formerly the flea-pit Tower Cinema. The Oddessy Diskotek, formerly known as Scamps, located at no. More commonly, it was known as Bier Keller, but not referred to as such in the telephone directories. Managed by the leader of Cheds Blues Band (later Vigilante) Ched Cheeseman, who filled the Juke Box himself and made it the cheapest and best juke box I can remember anywhere, ever. I think it must have opened 1979, as Ive recorded a Help! Rosie OGradys Nightclub, County Road North. How wrong could I be, Paul Rusling, a DJ from the time recalls: - 'this was a coffee and coke speak-easy late night club in 1967. Although frequented by a somewhat changed clientele, as the New Adelphi Club it continues to provide a platform for local bands as well as having international acts every now and then. In march 1968 we began renting it for one early night a week for our Radio 270 fan club, when I began my DJ work (still but 13). The Twist and the Jive were hot then. Doing his best to keep live music alive. 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