Ha, you sound like me Nan....Originally Posted by GNASHER
Ha, you sound like me Nan....
We used to go to the Masonic too
Changed a bit since then Lind, and it's name.We used to go to the Masonic too
I'll bet I know you from them days too. I was always round the good looking women.
Well, maybe not...
The name changed to some long hi falutin' name - - I can't think of it. It had a few words in it ! like Liverpool something or other Brewing Company.
Anyway, the pub wasn't the same after they refurbished it. They dragged all the soul out of it when they knocked it through and it was like a big souless room afterwards. A different crowd took over and the originals disappeared to pastures anew.
We used to go and watch live bands there when it was a good pub, and had some good nights there. We always saw someone we knew and have a laugh. Went back once or twice when it was altered but it had changed beyond recognition.
A mate of mine ran it for a few months about mid 70s. He was very popular with the ladies and the pool table saw quite a bit of action!
Yeah, we did too.
We might be best not mentioning where we used to go again.
You never know...
Thanks Ged...
Flintlocks - was that in Seel st ?
Ugly's was in Wood st I think ?
Hi Lindy...went to Rio's a couple of times, a real class place when it first opened...and good music I recall...
A pool table....that would have to be after my night-clubbing days were over.
Don't ever remember seeing such a thing when I was out and about. Pool tables, fruit machines, televisions..can't recall seeing any of them in the pubs in town that I used to go to.
The old Masonic...used to go to watch a mate of ours sing there..the Whitehouse on the corner of Duke St. only ever seemed to go there on a Sunday night..and the Indiana a little way up in Berry St, used to walk straight past it.
Uglys was in Duke St
Spent a lot of time in the Masonic when Brian G had it.A great pub for live music,a band on everynight.
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Davec I bet I know your face, I went to all those places, do you remember
a band called Minnesota Fats, with Albie on Sax, also Colin Areeti on the
Masonic, great day,s
Lindylou Tar for the link to Les Spaine, Lindy did you ever go to The Sink
on Hardman St
That's a club I never went to.
Did you know that 'Queen' played their first gig there ?
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George I wouldn't be surprised. Colin was the main reason I went to the Masonic, I knew him quite well - a lovely fella - ended up working the cruise liners before he died.
Minnesota Fats is a bridge too far for my seriously bad memory - although I keep thinking it rings a bell. Great days indeed....I can never hear Stevie Wonder's 'Superstition' without imagining the walls of the Pun shaking.
Tuesday was always a good night in Uglys - lots of footballers in there as they didn't often play mid-week in those days. It was probably 1972-79 that I'd have been in there (just the one night a week, not permanently!).
I'm trying to remember which club it was that opened on a Sunday night - though just until 12.00. I was often in there and can picture it in my head, but can't remember where or what it was. It wasn't very good - but just about the only place open on a Sunday.
Any suggestions?
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