Smiffy49 590 Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Can anyone remember the name of the club half way up Exchange Walk on the left, probably around 1966 - 67 time. I seem to remember lots of Soul & Motown on Friday? Smiffy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 I can't remember such a place, in fact I can't imagine anywhere up there that it could have been. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 My memory of Exchange Walk is of just shops. If there was a door in between shops leading up to a club, I never noticed it. I must have gone round wi' me eyes shut! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted February 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Yes, you are right, the entrance was virtually between two shops with a fight of stairs leading to the upper floor. It was my first experience of ultra violet lights and I can remember thinking that everyone had a very bad dose of dandruff! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Never knew of any clubs on exchange walk, are you thinking colemans Friday soul nights, on maypole yard ,off clumber street ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Never known such a place on Exchange walk? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 I've been up and down Exchange Walk since I was very young, and even back then I don't remember seeing any signs for a club. In fact I don't think there has ever been any space between two shops which could accommodate a club entrance. Are you perhaps mixing Exchange Walk with another Walk/Alley/Yard/Place ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 The only places that I can remember with the ultra-violet lights around that time were the upstairs of The White Hart (I think it was called) on Glasshouse Street and a pub on the town side of Trent Bridge, would it have been the Town Arms? That's now the Riverbank Restaurant. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Hi Lizzie, wasn't it the town arms that the Thursday footballers went in after training ? LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Could have been Chrissie, haha! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted March 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 Sorry about this, my Brother tells me it was perhaps on Trinity Walk......?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 Suppose that's possible Smiffy, there's a restaurant through a door and up some stairs, on the left going up from Parliament Street, now called Petit Paris. It may have been in that same building but I don't remember it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,090 Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 I remember getting kicked out of that little restaurant in about 1974, after me and my mate decided to spray each other with the ketchup for the plastic containers. I reckon it was the dodgy burgers that made us do it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 Smiffy49......I remember that club on Exchange Walk in 62-63. As you describe, a single door entrance on Exchange Walk...knock and the little spy door opened and the doorman inside checked you out before opening the door.Cannot remember the stairs to upstairs but can remember the red décor of the interior, red carpet, red wallpaper and red tinted lighting.Us boys had heard about the place and back then, no proof of age required - if you looked old enough, you were right!We only visited it twice and the place has stuck in my memory. The first time it was a dead hole with nothing happening and the second time some weeks later - still a dead hole. Just a lot of people sitting around talking and drinking and most with a few years on us. Distinctly remember they were only one drink visits on each occasion and the whinging by the lads about the prices when we got outside. I seem to remember that it had only just opened and our lot was real chuffed about the 'secret' club we could get into without any trouble. But, most definitely a club up on the left hand side. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 That sounds more like a brothel Trevor ....... not that I know anything about those sorts of places! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 I do not think so, LizzieM. This place had a fairly large pub style bar on the right hand side of the room as you came through the entrance door; with all the usual paraphernalia, stools at the bar and barmen. Cubicles from memory around the walls and waitress service. It was narrow to start with and then opened out into a fair sized room that went back a fair distance. Even had a manager type gent walking the floor and placed people at the tables. Smiffy or his brother should remember the layout?We never went into the room itself but stayed near the bar.Looking back, I suppose they were trying to style it on an American speak-easy?I have checked my previous content because I am sure that I queried as to whether anybody remembered the club on one of the lanes running north from St Peters Gate, across from the church and accessed through a single door. Both that question and my contents search got the same thing - nothing.And if it was not Exchange Walk, it was one of the next ones along such as Park Lane or Bank Place but I will still lay money on Exchange Walk.On both occasions we went there, we were in Ian Bells' clapped out, black coloured Rover with running boards that his parents had bought him and he used to park it on the church side of SPG next to the stone wall and we walked straight across the road. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 Whatever and wherever that place was...it couldn't have lasted long.In the early sixties I knew every dive and den of iniquity in town...and I've never heard of it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted March 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 Early 60's was too early for me, it was sometime around 1967 onwards. After my Brothers comments I am leaning towards Trinity Walk, definitely stairs up from street level, they only played soul & motown. Ultra Violet lights, mirror ball, DJ etc etc, not a large room. After this closed (a year later?) we would go to the Beachcomber which (I think?) may have become the Kool Kat. Another club which had moved from the Drury Hill area to Station St was the Pigalle, although this was probably early 70's? These may have been covered on other posts on this site so apologies if they have. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 I use to go to the Pigalle club in Hockley....was above what's now ice nine ? Like Poohbear, I thought I knew every club in town in the 60s but not exchange walk !!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 Never heard of this one even though I knew nearly all drinking establishments in the early to late 60's. Went to the Calypso once . I think it was on Victoria St or nearby. A big dark man threw me down stairs and had me pinned down in the road. Just before being nutted, I saw my "mates" scarpering up the street. I think it was my 20th birthday outing. Just one of life's character building episodes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 Calypso club was opposite st Mary's church high pavement , Commerce square ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 Sounds like the place. I know it wiped the smile off my face when I hit the road. Funnily enough it didn't hurt till the following morning. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 Anyone remember the club on Derby Rd Lenton. Somewhere opposite Hillside Shops just city side of QMC. Near the Lodge. I believe the club was upstairs . I have memories of seeing the Small Faces there, but after nearly 50 years, things become somewhat hazy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 Calypso club was opposite st Mary's church high pavement , Commerce square ? In later years yes...The original Calypso was three floors up on Byard Lane near the Cross Keys pub. The club on Derby Road was the original Stork Club. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted March 2, 2014 Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 Well done poohbear, Byard Lane, that's where I landed, I think it was still cobbled then. Three floors up that's where I descended in about three seconds flat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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