Accy Con Club

ChrisMG · 02-08-2007, 13:44

Has anybody covered this topic before? It's an absolute scandal that this building is being left to rot away. kids are in and out of it, along with the pigeons. Next thing you know it'll be on fire, just like the old Berkely (Opium). No one gives a damn anymore.

Lolly · 02-08-2007, 13:53

Is that what was Churchills?

Ianto.W. · 02-08-2007, 13:59

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Originally Posted by ChrisMG

Has anybody covered this topic before? It's an absolute scandal that this building is being left to rot away. kids are in and out of it, along with the pigeons. Next thing you know it'll be on fire, just like the old Berkely (Opium). No one gives a damn anymore.

It has been touched on in some of the 'back' threads, the people who own this building have let this building get into this state because the council kept refusing planning permission on the grounds that, 'the grand ballroom' be kept as it was. There was no way they could keep it that way and convert it into flats/offices, so the planners must shoulder some of the blame,it's time the shackles were removed and let the development procede, or it will finish up like the Hargreaves Wharehouse at Church.

Eric · 02-08-2007, 14:04

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Originally Posted by ChrisMG

Has anybody covered this topic before? It's an absolute scandal that this building is being left to rot away. kids are in and out of it, along with the pigeons. Next thing you know it'll be on fire, just like the old Berkely (Opium). No one gives a damn anymore.

That's a real s.o.b.

... I remember that I was playing snooker there when the news of JFK's assassination came on the TV.

Ianto.W. · 02-08-2007, 14:05

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Originally Posted by Lolly

Is that what was Churchills?

In short yes,but it will always be referred to as the Conservative Club by the older end. It was in fact the largest 'Con' in the country.

Lolly · 02-08-2007, 14:10

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Originally Posted by Ianto.W.

In short yes,but it will always be referred to as the Conservative Club by the older end. It was in fact the largest 'Con' in the country.

I've always known it as Churchills, i'm too young to remember it as the Con Club. lol. and i'm not suprised its the largest its huge!!!

Such a shame too because its a beautiful building.

Eric · 02-08-2007, 14:17

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Originally Posted by Ianto.W.

In short yes,but it will always be referred to as the Conservative Club by the older end. It was in fact the largest 'Con' in the country.

The "older end", mmm, I guess that's where I belong

Nice to know one's place

Ianto.W. · 02-08-2007, 14:23

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Originally Posted by Lolly

I've always known it as Churchills, i'm too young to remember it as the Con Club. lol. and i'm not suprised its the largest its huge!!!

Such a shame too because its a beautiful building.

It surely is Lolly, it is a grade 2 listed building, this is sometimes a curse on old buildings as it restricts the type of planning that can be granted. They should let the owners get on with altering it, before it is completely in ruins. It is directly behind my bedroom window and I do not care what use they put it to, within reason, it was a club when I bought the house in 1964 so it makes no difference to me, as long as the noise is controlled etc.

ChrisMG · 02-08-2007, 14:44

It's starting to make sense now!
I always wondered why there was a window missing on the top floor. You could see it from the railway station. Quite a cunning plan by the owner - remove a window, allow the bad weather to create so much damage that theres no longer a ceiling for the council to need to protect.
Or am I being cynical?

See the piccies.

Scandalous..

***Mr D*** · 02-08-2007, 15:06

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Originally Posted by ChrisMG

It's starting to make sense now!
I always wondered why there was a window missing on the top floor. You could see it from the railway station. Quite a cunning plan by the owner - remove a window, allow the bad weather to create so much damage that theres no longer a ceiling for the council to need to protect.
Or am I being cynical?

See the piccies.

Scandalous..

It is scandalas that the place is being left to rot.

By the way did you ask the person who took them photo's if you could use them? Copyright and all that.

cashman · 02-08-2007, 15:09

such a shame, one of the best places i was ever thrown out of.

JohnW · 02-08-2007, 15:58

I played drums there one night when it was the Berkley. One of the owners who played the organ, Jack Lowry invited me along as I had played with Jack at a couple of other venues many years earlier. I believe Jack also had a pub in Accy. Does anyone remember him?

MargaretR · 02-08-2007, 16:40

I went there every Saturday night as a teenager. Remember 'Eddie McGarry and his Broadcasting Band'.

BERNADETTE · 02-08-2007, 17:24

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Originally Posted by JohnW

I played drums there one night when it was the Berkley. One of the owners who played the organ, Jack Lowry invited me along as I had played with Jack at a couple of other venues many years earlier. I believe Jack also had a pub in Accy. Does anyone remember him?

It was never the Berkley, that is on Willow Street Accy Con is on Cannon Street the next street up.

beechy · 02-08-2007, 17:57

the ballroom was the largest sprung
wood floor in uk i remember it took for ever walking round it
watching all the girls dancing around their handbags