Guest Trevski Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...p;rd=1&rd=1 Wonder if they are real??
Monique Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...p;rd=1&rd=1 Wonder if they are real?? Have just seen them and thought the same.
Guest Bogue Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 I wish i had gone for them now ! worth that price even if they weren't the real deal, i expected them to go for some really silly price.
Guest Bogue Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 And if they were, what an opportunity we have just missed !
Guest mel brat Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 (edited) https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...p;rd=1&rd=1 Wonder if they are real?? It's quite possible. When the Catacombs finally closed in July 1974, some people were nicking the red industrial 'roadworks' lamps, that were strung along the corridors, as souvenirs! I vividly remember one hapless soul sitting on the fire escape at 7am cleaning the dust off his stolen lamp with a grubby hankerchief, possibly hoping a genie would appear and restore our beloved club to us! Incidently, I found the above picture from an antiques website that states: ROAD WORKS LIGHT Price: £35.00 "Old style road works danger lights (the same as the ones that we all stole for our hip bedrooms in the 60's-70's)" Coincidence, eh? Edited March 23, 2007 by mel brat
Guest Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 (edited) https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...p;rd=1&rd=1 Wonder if they are real?? Very interesting indeed ...... Not disputing that they are / might be real , but as far as I am aware , all the interior of Hose Street - fixtures / fittings etc . - were destoyed well before the place was demolished ...... Malc Burton Edited March 24, 2007 by Malc Burton
Guest Matt Male Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 There must be loads of stuff knocking about from legendary venues (or not). Imagine if it was collected altogether. Didn't someone suggest a Northern Soul museum on here a while back? Mind you, it's not in keeping with the idea of a flourishing living scene i suppose. Be interesting to see a chunk of the wall from the Cats, or a Wigan toilet (never cleaned of course!)
Barry Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 There must be loads of stuff knocking about from legendary venues (or not). Imagine if it was collected altogether. Didn't someone suggest a Northern Soul museum on here a while back? Mind you, it's not in keeping with the idea of a flourishing living scene i suppose. Be interesting to see a chunk of the wall from the Cats, or a Wigan toilet (never cleaned of course!) I still have my strips of Wigan floorboard - it was one length but the coppers made me snap it in two as I was trying to thread it through the window on the train one morning after a Maximes nighter.
Guest mel brat Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 (edited) Didn't someone suggest a Northern Soul museum on here a while back? Mind you, it's not in keeping with the idea of a flourishing living scene i suppose.... A very commendable attitude indeed, if a little "Futurist"! Seriously, I don't see what's so wrong with a "UK Museum of Soul" really, given that both Stax and Motown now have them! (I suggested somewhere that we could collate a database of extant "live" tapes of the kind that I'm sure most people own). The obvious problem is storage space for all the junk we've all collected over the years, and have kept so long it gets harder and harder to throw out! As a matter of fact, I quite like to see the memorabilia occasionally posted up on here, though in the case of floorboards etc., only the owner can give it credible provenance! (Souvenir traders are STILL selling "genuine bits of the Berlin Wall" to gullible tourists there, so If you ever see a bit of the 'Catacombs wall' going cheap on ebay, let me know!) Edited March 24, 2007 by mel brat
Guest Bogue Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Each time i look at this thread i can't help thinking of that episode of Blackadder where he becomes Archbishop of Canterbury Just found the script of the bit i mean on google ; Baldrick: Moving on to relics, we've got shrouds, from Turin; er, wine from the wedding at Cana; splinters from the cross (his finger gets a sliver from one of the splinters); er, and, of course, there's stuff made by Jesus in his days in the carpentry shoppe: got pipe racks, coffee tables, coatstands, bookends, crucifixes, a nice cheeseboard, fruit bowls, waterpoof sandals... (picks up a piece of wood that's partly carved) Oh, I haven't finished that one yet. Percy: But this is disgraceful, My Lord! All of these are obviously fake! Edmund: Hah, yes! Percy: But, but how will people be able to tell the difference between these and the real relics? Edmund: Well, they won't! That's the point! Percy: Well, you won't be able to fool everyone! Look (he takes a red cloth from his sleeve): I have here a true relic. Edmund: What is it? Percy: (unwraps the cloth) It is a bone from the finger of Our Lord. It cost me 31 pieces of silver. Edmund: Good lord. Is it real? Percy: It is, My Lord. Baldrick, you stand amazed. Baldrick: I am -- I thought they only came in boxes of ten. (he opens a box of finger bones) (??????????)
Guest mel brat Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 (edited) Each time i look at this thread i can't help thinking of that episode of Blackadder where he becomes Archbishop of Canterbury Just found the script of the bit i mean on google ; Percy: But, but how will people be able to tell the difference between these and the real relics?... Good one! I almost made the comparison to "Holy relics" myself, but I figured I'd already upset enough people elsewhere! (I'm seriously considering writing a 'Monty Python' type film script, based on "Quo Vadis", where someone goes in search of a "Holy splinter from Russ Winstanley's a--e", only to find redemption In the Modern Soul room!) Edited March 24, 2007 by mel brat
KevH Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 (edited) somebody's got their kitchen floor covered in Wigan dancefloor....now who was it?? Edited March 25, 2007 by KevH
Baz Atkinson Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 VERY INTERESTING WONDER WHAT A BASIN OUT OF THE CASINO MALE TOILETS WOULD GO FOR AFTER ALL THEM NETTYS WERE SO WELL LOOKED AFTER ? IF ANYONE SEES A ORIGINAL WIGAN PIE FROM THE UPSTAIRES CAFE FOR SALE LET ME KNOW ASAP. WHAT WILL IT BE IN 100 YEARS TIME FROZEN CRYAGENIC RUSS WISTANLEYS OR PERHAPS THE FLORESENT LIGHT ONTOP OF THE STAGE. BAZ A.
Baz Atkinson Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 It's quite possible. When the Catacombs finally closed in July 1974, some people were nicking the red industrial 'roadworks' lamps, that were strung along the corridors, as souvenirs! I vividly remember one hapless soul sitting on the fire escape at 7am cleaning the dust off his stolen lamp with a grubby hankerchief, possibly hoping a genie would appear and restore our beloved club to us! Incidently, I found the above picture from an antiques website that states: ROAD WORKS LIGHT Price: £35.00 "Old style road works danger lights (the same as the ones that we all stole for our hip bedrooms in the 60's-70's)" Coincidence, eh? THAT WOULD MAKE A REALLY GOOD RECORD BOX . BAZ A.
Guest Bogue Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 VERY INTERESTING WONDER WHAT A BASIN OUT OF THE CASINO MALE TOILETS WOULD GO FOR AFTER ALL THEM NETTYS WERE SO WELL LOOKED AFTER ? IF ANYONE SEES A ORIGINAL WIGAN PIE FROM THE UPSTAIRES CAFE FOR SALE LET ME KNOW ASAP. WHAT WILL IT BE IN 100 YEARS TIME FROZEN CRYAGENIC RUSS WISTANLEYS OR PERHAPS THE FLORESENT LIGHT ONTOP OF THE STAGE. BAZ A. Hey that's a good one Baz, could easily source a few knocked about Flory's, just paint em with sweat & niccotine & no one would know
Guest Bogue Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 somebody's got their kitchen floor covered in Wigan dancefloor....now who was it?? Have a job on wouldn't they Kev ? I thought there was only ash & springs left of it after the fire ? Oh & the famous fire proofed piano.
Crumb Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 somebody's got their kitchen floor covered in Wigan dancefloor....now who was it?? I was talking to Steve Whittle about this the other week, apparently the couple who's kitchen it was moved to Australia & the house has changed hands a few times since. Not long ago the new owners ripped up a laminate floor to discover the Casino floor underneath. The neighbours told them what it was so they told the local Wigan press, & it made the headlines.
Rob Wigley Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 IF ANYONE SEES A ORIGINAL WIGAN PIE FROM THE UPSTAIRES CAFE FOR SALE LET ME KNOW ASAP. Wigan pies are virtually indestructable and like Pampas Nappies will lie burried in the ground for thousands of years and will not break down. It is still possible to find them, intact , on the small area of waste ground behind the Casino site ! Casino regulars can be identified by missing/broken front teeth form the time they accidentially tried to eat a "Wigan Pie". The Wigan Pie ranks second in the list "worst ever food stuff" just behind the 1970s "BR Cheese and Tomato Sandwich" . Back to the Real subject of this thread We have seen many of these Torch wall lights for sale over the years, they are 1930s mass produced and there are matching ceiling lights with either 3 or 5 Torch shades on them. looking at the sellers area (Stoke) and the fact that these would have been a nice touch in the Torch Club it was worth a bid, a pair would normally sell £50 to £100 in good condition at an antique centre. look around and you will find them.
Rob Wigley Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 I was talking to Steve Whittle about this the other week, apparently the couple who's kitchen it was moved to Australia & the house has changed hands a few times since. Not long ago the new owners ripped up a laminate floor to discover the Casino floor underneath. The neighbours told them what it was so they told the local Wigan press, & it made the headlines. This was documented in Echoes in the early 80s with a picture of the couple dancing on the kitchen floor that they had rescued from T'Casino, they even left the "Fag Burns" in the wood. Canadian Maple floor if I remember right !
Baz Atkinson Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 IF ANYONE SEES A ORIGINAL WIGAN PIE FROM THE UPSTAIRES CAFE FOR SALE LET ME KNOW ASAP. Wigan pies are virtually indestructable and like Pampas Nappies will lie burried in the ground for thousands of years and will not break down. It is still possible to find them, intact , on the small area of waste ground behind the Casino site ! Casino regulars can be identified by missing/broken front teeth form the time they accidentially tried to eat a "Wigan Pie". The Wigan Pie ranks second in the list "worst ever food stuff" just behind the 1970s "BR Cheese and Tomato Sandwich" . I WONDERED WHY MY STOMACHE WAS SO IFY OHHHHHHHH [WHERES MY ZANTAC]LOL. Back to the Real subject of this thread We have seen many of these Torch wall lights for sale over the years, they are 1930s mass produced and there are matching ceiling lights with either 3 or 5 Torch shades on them. looking at the sellers area (Stoke) and the fact that these would have been a nice touch in the Torch Club it was worth a bid, a pair would normally sell £50 to £100 in good condition at an antique centre. look around and you will find them.
Steve G Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...p;rd=1&rd=1 Wonder if they are real?? I just love the way they are m,ounted on a grotty piece of 2" x 2" wood. Real class that!
KevH Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 Have a job on wouldn't they Kev ? I thought there was only ash & springs left of it after the fire ? Oh & the famous fire proofed piano. damn you Bogue,that's my little earner gone up in smoke
Guest mel brat Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 THAT WOULD MAKE A REALLY GOOD RECORD BOX . BAZ A. Lamps not big enough for a record box I'm afraid, or I'd have maybe nicked the lot myself! I wish I'd have dragged one of the long, black wooden benches out now. (It would have been a laugh trying to get it home on the bus anyway!)
Guest mel brat Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 (edited) I just love the way they are m,ounted on a grotty piece of 2" x 2" wood. Real class that! Maybe the wood's a bit of the "Wigan dancefloor"....! Edited March 26, 2007 by mel brat
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