Macmillans was owned by Lenny McMillan, (who sadly died last year) and Stuart Davenport.
They also owned the Mardi Gras on Bold Street, O'Connors bar on Hardman Street and the building that houses Cream nightclub in Wolstenholme Square. Macmillans was a good laugh. It had great DJs on. I think it was open Wed - Sunday till about 2pm but frequently stayed open later.
Thursdays was quite good, it was a night called Disco ****ation which went on for a few years and was very popular.
The Bears Paw & Harrington Bar stayed open until about 1989. I worked there in the daytime when it was called the Harrington Bar. It was owned by Gordon Shearer, who also owned Paco's Bar.
Towards the end it's patrons - who tended to be 'rough' - twice attacked the place smashing it to bits and attempting to ransack the office in order to get to the safe and steal the money, and in the end Gordon let the bar go because he couldn't live with the stress. I think he sold it.
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From what I can remember I was told that there was a life sized statue of The Queen sat on a throne behind some red velvet curtains or something - not too sure. Maybe it was a cabaret bar in the sixties or something.
Jody's was an alternative / punk type club in the early eighties and then a lot of the gay crowd began going there. It used to have live cabaret every Wednesday with acts like Paul O'Grady's Lily Savage performing for a hour or so.
It wasn't frequented too much towards the end. It's now a lap-dancing bar call Sugar.
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