Just had a meeting on Churchgate. Sad to see the Bolton News offices empty. And in a week or two the Travel Counsellors building opposite will be empty. Another 200+ people spending approx £20 per week on parking and lunches in the town... plus whatever other services they spend their hard-earned on - all being lost. Very sad state of affairs.

 

When will it get better? Should these empty offices be turned into apartments?

The Temple, Atlantis and Juice/early J2 were great times for me

Not been out in Bolton since my leaving drinks from work.

It was always a shite place but enough beer and good mates make any place fun.

Need more classy establishments like Bergerac's circa 97 to draw the chic clientele back to the town.

Used to like that private room at the back

Used to like that private room at the back

There was a bottle of absinthe in there one evening.

 

It ended with one of our group asleep in his bath having utterly shit himself.

I always thought the nightlife was decent in Bolton TC in the 80's.We've had mobs of lads + lasses up from Darn Sarf who always loved a night out here.

Corks

Clouseaus

Spennys

Masseys

Bergeracs

Rockerfellas/Ritzys/Central Park

Pink Panthers

Hawthorns

The Dome

Oscars

Maxies Tavern

 

Happy Days

Edited October 24, 201510 yr by Burndens Bogs

three crowns

blue boar

boars head

 

that place i can never remember under the gas board

 

and space city, obvs

 

 

what/where was masseys?

 

 

and dont forget supper bar and the one across the road

Edited October 24, 201510 yr by Casino

that place i can never remember under the gas board

Oscar's?

Spaz, why don't you have a back to the old temple do at your gaff next Saturday? It's a winning idea imo.

Spaz, why don't you have a back to the old temple do at your gaff next Saturday? It's a winning idea imo.

Thinky veiled "I want Spaz to take me back to his gaff and seduce me" post

Oscar's?

 

 

was that not lower nags, under marks?

It was in the basemet, behind what was Rumbelows, wasn't it (at the side of the Town Hall), at the back of the Octagon?

Bar metro 69 69 69 is da bomb

was that not lower nags, under marks?

that was Oliver's

thought so

 

 

bcg, aye

 

might have been bulloughs not rumbelows

 

 

you could definitely have a decent night out in bolton in the 80s

 

maybe you still can

three crowns

 

 

what/where was masseys?

Bar/Neetclub on the site were Bergeracs was,but a couple of years before Bergys.

Ex wife is in town tonight

 

IF anyone has been on MR58s finger blasting course

 

give it a go no dout she will be in the Swan later

 

looking in the bog it might be Rag Week or WINSTON has just RUINED her

three crowns

blue boar

boars head

 

They were my haunts when I first used to go into town at 16 in 1980

 

Brother was a biker so it was in them places and then the Swan Cellar and then run the gauntlet of the Mods coming out

Not seen the Crown & Flicknife mentioned!!! Great bar/pub/club.

Thursday night karaoke - followed by a real struggle on Friday morning at work until we finished at lunch time and spilled into the Alma or Clarence.

Whatever happened to finishing early on a Friday?

Edited October 24, 201510 yr by Smiley

Does none of these towndweller WW'ers live amid the women of ill-repute in Marsden House then, like some latter-day Whoremasters?

No mention of Swannies?

 

I arranged the opening and running of Swannies before moving to the Wirral

When you was a teenager round Bolton, you never bothered about the way the town looked, it was just a drinking spree with the pubs and clubs on offer, I would never venture past Four Lane Ends now after dark.

No mention of Swannies?

 

I arranged the opening and running of Swannies before moving to the Wirral

I knew a coupla lads on the door at Swannies from the early days,Johnny Brads & Big Joe Hubbard (Rip) The latter lost an ear in an incident in there iirc.

Bouncers were firm but fair in those days and drugs were almost none existent in town,although eager trollops & cheap booze were plentiful.

Whilst we're on the subject of ears & The Swan, a mate of mine (Roy Hartles son) got his ear sliced off in The Swan by an Everton fan with a glass before our League cup semi against them in 1977, luckily enough the Docs managed to stitch it back on.

Edited October 24, 201510 yr by Burndens Bogs

'Kin ell, give me both ears and folk out of their tits...

'Kin ell, give me both ears and folk out of their tits...

That made me chuckle,fair point though.