The Vulcan

[Mancie]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Used to go in at lunch time when I was at Tech, as I remember twas a very good Juke Box

Yep jogged my memory ... was right across from the Tech, never classed it as on the Barbary Coast..not as close as the Sun, Dun Horse etc.
It was known as a pub were they might turn a blind eye to abit of wacky backy.. same as the Albion in Clayton and Blockade in Accy.

[Benipete]

Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

Walt is still with us, saw him and his missus in Accy last week.

Glad to hear that.I worked for him in The Tavern Ossy

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Mancie

Yep jogged my memory ... was right across from the Tech, never classed it as on the Barbary Coast..not as close as the Sun, Dun Horse etc.

now ya mention it,we never did,thought vulcan n jubilee were just off the "Coast" we regarded the Ribblesdale n George @Dragon as the edge of coast. we were from accy though so will bow to the knowledge of any owd Blackburner. any takers?

[Alan Gilmartin]

Was there a Wheatsheaf, on the B coast ajacent to the Mecca.

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by cashman

now ya mention it,we never did,thought vulcan n jubilee were just off the "Coast" we regarded the Ribblesdale n George @Dragon as the edge of coast. we were from accy though so will bow to the knowledge of any owd Blackburner. any takers?

I'm trying to remember , I'm thinking you had to walk past the Ribblesdale to get to the Dun Horse (opposite Police Station , near to the Blackburn Times office ) both in spitting distance of Yates wine lodge

[Alan Gilmartin]

Good to hear from you Steely. What was the name of the pub down that street where the Library is. There used to be a Co-oP Emporium there I think. accross from Tony's Ballroom, Am I making sence.

[Mancie]

I'm thinking, Little Bull, Big Bull, Yates, Sun, Swan, Dun Horse,.. and one over from Dun horse?.... then some proper dive night club..ah yes Tophat!

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin

Good to hear from you Steely. What was the name of the pub down that street where the Library is. There used to be a Co-oP Emporium there I think. accross from Tony's Ballroom, Am I making sence.

yep , knew the place well , I asked the same question a few threads back , and never got an answer , a big one room place , I think a Lion pub , remember telling my parents about a new "hot" pub in Blackburn and they fell about laughing they had used it 20 years earlier

[accyman]

Originally Posted by pipinfort

FLAMES....now that WAS what you call a nightclub.....bit of a boogie to Black Betty and all that.................Good times.......

i once fell drunk into a bike outside there and it fell over taking 2 other bikes with it lol

a bit of quick thinking saved my life because when the owners came out to see what had happened i pointed down the street andd said some lads just kicked them over and ran off in that direction pointing down the street lol

the bike owners got some exercise and i got to carry on getting more drunk

[pipinfort]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

flames was that near the fire station. no pun intended honest

Errr i think that is where it got its name from..........

[flashytart]

just been talking to my mate Kev about this thread, he said he used to go in the Vulcan nearly everyday in the 80s