The Vulcan
 

With memories flooding back spending time reading the Barbary Coast thread i was wondering if anyone else remembered or went to The Vulcan in blackburn.quality establishment with a very high quality music choice.....:D Spent many a drunken teenage night in there.

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i obviously never entered that god damn awful place but i remember it being there, down near waves wasnt it? i remember my aunt telling me it was a real seedy place and i had never to go in it

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Aye, thats the one....seedy..? no.......well er yes, maybe...........but hey whats wrong with that....?

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full of druggies wasnt it pipples?

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No, just Rocker type people...................:D

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hmmm if you say so ;)

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

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Only pub in Blackburn with no chairs....Walt Buck.....Landlord.

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was a great boozer way back, great juke box n good crack. Jubilee i think was just up road around corner another gem.:D

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Me to Jaysay, used to go in at lunch times, when I was a fulltime student at Blackburn Tech, or we used to go to the Mecca for the lunchtime sessions, the DJ played all the latest in soul. It went down well with the pies.

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Yup Alan tried that as well, also Belper Street Baths in Summer as well. We started the twilight shift whilst I was at Tech, that was right through until 7pm. so you didn't need to come back for a night class, we used to do the Mecca at lunch and the Vulcan at tea:D

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What years would that be jaysay, and what department, I was Catering.

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64 TO 67 Alan, I was in the joinery department, went to Blackburn when they shut our departmet at Sandy Lane

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lol i remember the vulcan , i a very nice barlady kindly donated the ash that fell off her joint into my pint

thought it best to blow it off the head of my beer rather than complain and get told to F off lol

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You'll be intimating that that salubrious establishment had a bad name accyman:eek::D

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visited the place quite a lot and usualy ended up at flames after for a few extra beers which was like a night club version of the vulcan lol

if i remember correctly the place didnt even have carpet down it was just stone flags lol

easier to clean puke and pee off i guess :)

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Don't forget the yellow stone which made the flags look nice:D

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EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

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I remember the Vulcan,had some good afternoon sessions in there !
Quality pub in it's time !:)

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it must have had or i wouldn't have gone in.:D

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This pub in the early seventies sold more lager and soft drinks than any other pub in Blackburn.....The carpet was taken up by the then Landlord...Walt Buck who was a former bus driver on the Ribble.
A friend of mine, with my help sometimes, took the stock and submitted VAT records.
Walt Buck made quite a consirable amount of money in this place and bought the Jacksons Arms in Chorley....The Sun and the Swan in Blackburn...A big pub in Preston town centre......A Pub in Abbey Village....A pub in Whalley.
The last I heard of Walt..........He made himself known to my Daughter who was then a nursing sister on coronary care after seeing her name tag. Time had caught up with him, Dodgy ticker.
As far as I know Walter is still alive......The old Bandit.

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Even the puke's different these days with all this diet stuff, yoget, processed foods and alcopops Chardonay, lattes, for gods sake where has all the character gone. at least we used to get decent stuff in the pubs, dog ends stale beer smells, dogs breath, mogy cats, pies were a lot biger and tastie.

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If your ever ever for a holiday Alan you'll have to pop in my club, they have 3 natural beers on, Wynnonie's favourite Black Sheep, Pendal Witch, and I think the other is called Bartender, they are are all good, or so I'm told:D

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Yep, you, me mr C, & wynnonie.

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

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ok pipples now you sound really old, how old where you when you used to go in there? 2?

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LOL, i must have been about 16/17...............;)

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

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

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That is good news....If you see him again please tell him that Roy the Vatman sends his regards.....He will understand.

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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. ;)

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

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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.:confused: we were from accy though so will bow to the knowledge of any owd Blackburner. any takers?:confused:

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

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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

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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.

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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!

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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

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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 :D

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

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

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Jesus yeh i remember the Vulcan, i moved from the south west to Blackburn and that was the first pub i really went to, new years eve 88 to be precise. It was bloody great,good music and beer!!!!!

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Moving from the south west the beer would be good:D

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Used to serve a really good pint in the Vulcan. Used it when it went to the Tech in the mid 70's. Also the Jubilee and The Court pub to, which was round the back of the Tech. I used to work at a Printers on St Peters Street, so remember using both the Wheatsheaf and Dun Horse too....and not forgetting the legendary Dirty Duck!!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Used to go in the Vulcan in the late 60's, lots of glasses flying. I also went to another pub at the bottom of New Park St, but don't remember its name. I think it was near the Baths.

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Were you going to the Tech at the time. Joaner.

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No Alan, used to do the 'rounds' on a Friday night. Ya know, Little Bull, Big Bull, Adelphi, Clarence, Wine Lodge, Vulcan and sometimes the Sun. Had plenty of laughs, there used to be about 20 of us meet up at the Little Bull. Then on to the Cavendish Club.

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The local gendarmes used to have a tactic where they sent one copper into The Vulcan and left two outside the door. When the copper appeared inside several people (whether under age or indulging in the occasional herbal cigarette) waited for him to turn his back and beat a hasty retreat to the door, only to have their collars felt by the two sentries. If you stayed put, inside, you were invariably safe.

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oh what a fab pub. I was at the Tech from 76-78 and we used to go in there for pie n peas and a pint at lunchtimes. It was full of hippies and great juke box. best time we ever had in there was last day of tech at Xmas - place was rockin!!!

When they came to pull it down, a mate of mine went there and managed to acquire some corner stones from the entrance door....worth a lot to him for "memorabilia" sakes!!

Anyone ever know what happened to Simon Rawcliffe - he used to live on Manchester Road and was in my English group. He was really clued up on heavy metal music at the time....nice guy.

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Thats not the chap that won £125,000 on "Millionaire" is it, but uses the name Syd now???

Best Regards - Taggy

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Hi TAggy,

Yeah I bet that´s him.....he used to call himself Sid back then too. Small world!!!

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Ive not seen him for a bit now, but he's a keen "Quizzer" and think he used to take part in Quiz leagues at the Sydney St WMC and The Crown! Probably a few other places too!

Best Regards - Taggy

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He was a pretty smart dude.....very good at English lit and music...so I could imagine him being a good one to have on your team in a quiz! I always imagined he would go on to become a famous author!

the crown (and the Greyhound) used to be my locals - as I lived on Cranbourne drive.....two good pubs back in the late 70´s.

Have a good day. Throwing it down here in not-so-sunny Algarve today!!

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....Talk about coincidence, i saw Syd walk past WH Smith in Blackburn this morning, but i was in the queue paying, and he was gone when i got out!!


Best Regards - Taggy

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what an amazing coincidence.! Funny you mentioned him in quizes at Stanley St WMC - that is where I used to go with him on a Sunday night - upstairs they used to have live (pretty heavy metal) bands playing. Discovered two really fab bands there - one called Strife and the other called Arbre - later group were Jordies. Real rocked.......

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Hello to all.

Wow this thread really brings back memories.

I spent a lot of time in The Vulcan especially 81 to 84 when I was studying at Blackburn Tech.

Several things stick in my mind about The Vulcan.

Fantastic Juke Box

George and Anne.

The Mod Room

Being there when the news broke that Sid Vicious and Nancy Spongen had died,

Derek - A complete lush, Who always dressed in a suit, tie, and a light blue anorak, He could be found in there most afternoons playing pool.

Upstairs on a Friday and Saturday night

One of the denim clad long haired regulars (Billy?) winning a lot of money, possibly on spot the ball or the like,

6% Holsten Pils - Usually two bottles at once in a pint glass.

Its notorious reputation, which it thrived on.

Long since gone, and fondly remembered are - The Top Hat Club (A.K.A Flying Bottle) The Veteran, The Peel, The Clarence, The Queens, The Courts, The Grapes, The Swan.
Cheers


Wonderwall

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Ah the Vulcan.......Heady memories of a byegone age.

Sorry folks, you have me a disadvantage. I AM the aforementioned Syd Rawcliffe and guilty on all counts but who are YOU then, Taggy and Redrose? I am intrigued.....But I have one or two ideas.......

Your post came to my attention when three people asked me if I was originally called Simon (A name not used since my teens) and mentioned the website......

I remember drinking wonderful mild and consuming plates of pie and peas in the Vulcan too....The frightening thing is that that was 32 years ago..........

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Its frightening me too swampie, but for me its 42 years:eek::eek::rolleyes:

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about 40 fer me, though i did have a spell in 80s when on a coarse at blackburn tech, but things are never the same.:) the "Ribb" George n Dragon, Vulcan, n Jubilee were all great boozers on a great circuit back in the day.

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Don't forget the good old Dune Horse and The Old Bank cashy, had a phase of going in the Old Bank back in the early 80s, I was a mate of landlord, Geoff Edwardson, who was on the Lancashire County Pool Ass. Committee with me for a few years, he later took a couple of pubs in Accy think he had the Antley for a time and possible the Globe, but I'm not sure, but I bet Taggy knows:D

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oh aint forgot em, also sun,swan,wine lodge, legs o man,county.merchant, then usually the cells.:D

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My favourite was the third one on the right cashy:D

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Nope, i'm afraid you've got me with that one John, unless i'd know him by sight the name's not ringing any bells. Never really went in either the Globe or Antley too often though, they were probably always in a lower division than us!!:D:D think there used to be an oldish lady ran the globe back then but might be wrong...the grey matter isnt what it once was i'm afraid! ....and it wasn't very good then!!:)

Best Regards - Taggy

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got to say I did prefer the Accy nick cells...as far as I recall they all looked the same to me... a bit off topic but was speaking my mate and when he was in the cells at Ipswich "come on eileen" was on the radio... I thought raggy git.. the only thing I used to hear was "oscar delta roger" and stuff :)

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i didn't, had a few banjoings in accys.:(

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yeah and I tell you what..quite a few of them were bent.. in a criminal way..you get banged up for drunk and dizzy and they would try hard to get you on any theft cases they had not solved..may have changed these days.:rolleyes:

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never had that one, mind don't think they would have fancied taking me upstairs.:D though i was blessed with the "Wet Towel" treatment once, which leaves no marks, just internal bruising.:rolleyes:

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Only time I went upstairs was to the Mags court on monday mornings :D..you knew you were in for a bad time when you saw the clerk with the glasses on..can't recall his name but more often than not it was back down the stairs for a few months!;)

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George Pratt. by name n nature.:D;)

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thats him..the Mags were at he's mercy..he didn't take no prisoners..but then again he took plenty:D

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I knew George very well cashy, his son was a pal of mine back in the sixties, his son was okay though:D

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Geoff was a small really thick set guy, drove a white Bentley at one time, face like a robbers dog, hard as bloody nails, six inch nails at that:D

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Just to say a massive thanks to Taggy. Through this thread, I'm now back in touch with red roses . She was a special friend of mine in the 70s but we lost contact in 1978!

Superb job, Taggy!:phappy:

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Its great to hear that you are now back in touch swampbeastie....i believe Portugal is a nice place to visit!!;)

Best Regards - Taggy

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Steady...........

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LOL!!

Best Regards - Taggy

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:):)

Regards!

Beastie

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I want to make it plain I was not a thief!

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the Tophat had it's faults..like the getting chucked down the steps to the mercy of the bouncers at the door.. but they played some tunes up the top room and this one was always on ..
YouTube - The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine [Alternate Mix]

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Yep it was well known as place to get drugs back then and rockers.

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I remember Syd's front room well.

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Red Rose.....is me Syd.... Annie in Algarve!!!! only just seen this as I havent been on this site for ages....

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My earliest pub experiences were spent in the Vulcan as a fifteen year old. Loved the atmosphere and the people. I have very happy memories of that place.

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Official swampbeastie and red rose reunion taking place on the Algarve in January 2017................

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The Courts Hotel.

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Similiar tio my DJ at Peepers request...I used tho flit between the Vulcan and there in the mid 7Os..Im trying to compile 20 songs from the Vulcan juke box..I remember just a couple led zep etc.but not as many as i Remember from Peepers..Planet rock radio show do a rockblock of your rock songs for a full hour but they like a bit of a story why you chose the list..Theyve played three of mine this year..A Vulcan selection would go down well for sure.so any one remember what was on the juke box..1975-1979ish..
If you like the Planetrock show send em one of yours..its played 6.00 pm daily on Dab

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/16746564545/
Theres a I DRANK AT THE VULCAN facebook page ..posted a few of my fav jukebox hits on it...Wish we could set one up for Bold steet Workings mans club....

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That would be my Dad, he had the Globe first and then The Antley, before those he was at The Volunteers in Clayton, the Top Club. He also did a spell in the Park Darwen, The Forresters in Halsingden, The Oak Tree in Clitheroe, The Seven Stars in Barnoldswick.



The white car he had was a Rover 3.5 Coupe.


I also remember the Vulcan - though I didn't go drinking there till after I was 18 (1980) as all the landlords around knew my Dad and that I also wasn't 18...