Rick Cooper Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Listeners to Sounds of the Sixties on Radio 2 have no doubt heard the "Northern Soul Season " feature . Each week they play two records as examples of a northern soul favourite with a bit of info about the record and artist. Sometimes they get this a little wrong but usually good enough, unless you want to be very picky , which I do. This Saturday (2nd April ) they played The Carstairs- He Who Picks a Rose and then announced that it was a big record at The Golden Torch in the Yorkshire market town of Cleckheaton. I'm sure Cleckheaton is a nice place but a long way from the Torch. I hope someone puts them right before promoters put on a Torch revival at the civic centre, councillors add it to their website and groups of youths in baggy trousers roam Cleckheaton in search of the original site. The only famous thing I know about Cleckheaton is that (I think) it was where Julian Bentley used to live. Maybe he can give us more info about its notorious nightlife. Rick Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Algsoul Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 30 minutes ago, Rick Cooper said: Listeners to Sounds of the Sixties on Radio 2 have no doubt heard the "Northern Soul Season " feature . Each week they play two records as examples of a northern soul favourite with a bit of info about the record and artist. Sometimes they get this a little wrong but usually good enough, unless you want to be very picky , which I do. This Saturday (2nd April ) they played The Carstairs- He Who Picks a Rose and then announced that it was a big record at The Golden Torch in the Yorkshire market town of Cleckheaton. I'm sure Cleckheaton is a nice place but a long way from the Torch. I hope someone puts them right before promoters put on a Torch revival at the civic centre, councillors add it to their website and groups of youths in baggy trousers roam Cleckheaton in search of the original site. The only famous thing I know about Cleckheaton is that (I think) it was where Julian Bentley used to live. Maybe he can give us more info about its notorious nightlife. Rick kev Roberts held a do at the town hall last year Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Julianb Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Hi Rick We used to run a soul night at the George hotel in cleckheaton on a Wednesday around 1971 The famous Mr Bentley Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Roburt Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 There's nowt wrong with Cleckheaton, Drighlington, Slaithwaite (pronounced SL-HOW-IT), Linthwaite & Hipperholme .... apart from the fact that Kegsy lives up near there !! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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