October 23, 201510 yr My experience was 76 til 80. Was a cracking night out then. Town was buzzing fri sat & sun from 12:00 til 02:00. Catered for everyone. Swan corner wasn't that bad, good sport imo. Chippys were magic once the pubs closed. Thing is everyone tipped out at 7pm sharp, no fuckin need for pre drinks crap! see im old school out at 7 power drink till last orders at 11 home pissed
October 23, 201510 yr 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.
October 24, 201510 yr Need more classy establishments like Bergerac's circa 97 to draw the chic clientele back to the town.
October 24, 201510 yr 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.
October 24, 201510 yr 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
October 24, 201510 yr 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
October 24, 201510 yr Spaz, why don't you have a back to the old temple do at your gaff next Saturday? It's a winning idea imo.
October 24, 201510 yr 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
October 24, 201510 yr 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?
October 24, 201510 yr 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
October 24, 201510 yr three crowns what/where was masseys? Bar/Neetclub on the site were Bergeracs was,but a couple of years before Bergys.
October 24, 201510 yr 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
October 24, 201510 yr 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
October 24, 201510 yr Author 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
October 24, 201510 yr Does none of these towndweller WW'ers live amid the women of ill-repute in Marsden House then, like some latter-day Whoremasters?
October 24, 201510 yr No mention of Swannies? I arranged the opening and running of Swannies before moving to the Wirral
October 24, 201510 yr 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.
October 24, 201510 yr 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
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