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Looking for more details on the Place nightclub Hanley. It was a Great club, used to work there when it was great, the Bagnalls, Steve and his dad new how to run it well for the people. run down in later years by poor corprate decisions and non stoke running it.
I was 18 in 1965 and used to go to the Crystal every Saturday. Downstairs in the Hawaiian bar would be local groups playing the latest from the charts. In the main hall one floor up was the revolving stage and I remember the Legendary Lonnie with his group Lonnies Few who would always end the night with an R & B rocker that went on for ages.
At the side of the dance floor was the area where you had your chicken and chips in a basket and drank Double Diamond. On the third level was another bar where they introduced discos.
We also used to go to the Top Rank in Hanley. I think I went there on the first saturday they opened. All I can remember from the top rank is the open staircase which descended onto the main dance floor. Every time I hear Tom Jones It's not unusal or Unit 4 plus 2 with Concrete and Clay I am taken back to the Top Rank.
We also went occasionally to the Adulte in Burslem and later to the Heavy Steam Machine. One place not mentioned very often is the Clayton Lodge hotel where we used to go on a sunday night. If my memory is correct it was one of the last places where the dancing was the rock and roll jive or bopping as we called it. Then gradually they started playing the stand about and do your own thing dances but you wouldn't get up without a girl.
Somone mentioned coach trips to the potteries for the night life. In the 80s I worked in Manchester and met people who lived in places like Blackburn who told me stories of their regular saturday coaches to the potteries for the Place and the Crystal.