Thanks for keeping a 71 year old "Maghull exile" in touch with his youth. I was shocked lately to see my old school, SFX Bilateral (opposite the Collegiate), changed so much by JMU occupancy. This was a scene of so much happiness (football, fighting and Bond). Shows like yours keep what's gone in the memory. Keep it up, Jeff
I felt really old watching this as I know nothing about the clubs and years that you're talking about but could relate the the "old" photos at the end. When I feel homesick these videos let me know that those old days really are gone. Onwards and upwards to sunlit uplands. Thanks for posting the video
in 1963 Tommy Steele held his engagement party at the Cabin. Over the years he had done many shows in Liverpool and after his shows he always ended up in the Cabin. So there.
Hi Jeff, your video just brought back so many memories from the past. My old drinking den's Wilsons and Swan do ever remember a bikers club called The Night Riders. l remember you had to go up loads of stairs, and it's was dark inside. My daughter used to go to the crazy house, but I didn't realise it's still there now that's going back a bit. Thanks👍
10:54 The Cabin Club in the sixties in the basement on Wood Street was a great little place...upstairs bar....small bar and dance area downstairs...presided over by a Mrs Windsor as I remember.. A death trap really...only one way in and out...and for years there was a resident spanish music group in attendance....Happy days
X in the city was formerly the Mercury newspaper office and the presses was located behind the building, It was aquired by one of the owners of Tracy's club to turn it into a night club in the 70's around the same time as Ugly's was being constructed but i decided to go to go to Uglys instead but did get to have a good rumage around the building first, The building itself is of good interest if you take a closer look, over the doorway, you got two heads of mercury, you can just about see them as you walk past.
A great trip up Wood Street, the nearest I ever got to wood street was to the continental club in Woolstonholme Square and ye crack. So I found Wood Street very interesting.
I wrote this before the video had finished, I didn't see the tea warehouse where Mantuna Tea was blended and packaged or didn't recognise it, if you wanted a tea chest you only had to ask at the shutter entrance and you got, they was handy for moving house or for toys
Seem to remember this on the corner of Wood Street and Concert Street, worked in Concert street from 1977 for about 7 years or so, and recall walking past the warehouse.
You know you could be right, it did take up most of that block but I was long gone by time you worked there, Thanks for the reminder of where it was, I had forgotten. @@kevcarter1188
