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Great work
Thanks a million for those wonderful images, it looks fairly familiar and no doubt had not changed much by the time I went there around 1972/73.
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Yeh that's it. Paddy's as well!
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It's amazing to see that image, I had forgotten the details, so it's wonderful to refresh my recollections.
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i remember they had flurescent lighting and if you wore anything white you looked like an omo advert------now who remembers 'omo'??
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Great memories, thanks for sharing, yes the lighting..mm, round the early 70s was there not a fad for 'ultra-violet' light in clubs?
Shocked to hear that folks wore white-shirts to The Empress, certainly absent when it was a haunt for bikers and others waerigng long hair
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white shirt and suit and tie in 60s anyway
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yes, leathers in the late 70s
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yes that would explain it, different decades, different fashion
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...and in 1972 also
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white shirt and suit and tie in 60s anyway
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white shirt and suit and tie in 60s anyway
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Some pics from paulwirral in another topic.
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Thankyou.I think the stairs were at the side of the arcade?
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If I remember correctly, the manager was guy called "Meadows" lived on the Durly Estate and the club was owned by Black Jack McGee who also owned the Craftsmans!
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great to see that image, thanks a million, sparked a decaying recollection of that place, the arcade had forgotten
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Thanks a million for those wonderful images, it looks fairly familiar and no doubt had not changed much by the time I went there around 1972/73. 
