Jaysay & the starlight club
 

Am I right jaysay that you worked at the Starlight.

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No Alan never actually went in the Starlight club never mind work there, only worked in nightclubs after the casinos were taken out of local clubs

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Alan, I hope you don't mind me printing the picture to show a chap who goes in the Read Con with me, he cannot be convinced such a Club existed.

I saw Michael Bentine there in the 60's and one night I lost a weeks wage on the wheel, I know it existed but trying to convince the chap has been hard.

There used to be two groups on at night,one would do the Starlight and the other the Burnley cabaret and change over at half time.

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Although I never attended the clubs Gremlin they used to get some great acts back in those days, but after Government legislation, which cut down on clubs who could hold a gambling licence, these clubs could no longer afford the star acts and eventually they all closed

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I know the cabaret club was in Rosegrove,but where was the Starlight club.

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On the right of the Burnley to Nelson road, about two hundred yards before Brierfield traffic lights.
It was an old cinema, cabaret downstairs gambling upstairs.
I think it would be about 1967 when I last went in.
I couldn't afford to loose a weeks wage too often and I have never gambled since, no horses, dogs, pub bandits or anything.
I learnt my lesson in the Starlight.

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When I worked for the N.C.B in the sixties a friend appeared at the cabaret club at Rosegrove, but he was never on at the Starlight club.

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Little Harwood Blackburn Roy

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The Rosegrove Cabaret club AND the Cavendish in Blackburn, were clubs "before their time". Wonderful places to go to, and some wonderful acts to be seen! All wonderfully civalised, small tables, intimate lighting, good acts! Brilliant! All when much of the Tamla Motown music was at its height. Wonderful memories

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Looks like we got two.

One Brierfield.
One Little Harwood, I had not been to either.

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The cav didn't last long as gambling club Atarah in fact after the fire in the early 70s they did away with what was the casino part (which was turned into a Go Go dance room) and made it into one big room although the cabaret was always great there even after the demise of the casino, but of course it was run by the Bailey organisation with John Smith as CEO, it was a multi venue company with clubs all over England, there were two very big clubs in Sheffield and Watford, and others in Liverpool Oldham Bristol Newcastle Carlisle, and others

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Two girls who lived across the road from my grandma at Bastwell in Blackburn in the sixties worked in the casino as croupiers when the Cav opened.
In about 1971 my partner was a barman/waiter and his sister was a go go dancer who used to dance on what was previously the roulette table.

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Ya Anne there were 3 rooms as I remember the big cabaret lounge on the left like a small disco dance floor in the middle and the gogo room (once the casino) down a passage to the left, it all change when it went up in smoke around december 72 I think

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There was the Latino Lounge for combos & standup comediens & The Speak easy Disco, then the big cabaret room. At the Cav. The Starlight was a bit Dingy no Class.

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A bit like the Top Hat Alan, their promotional saying was Wine Dine and Bleed at the Top Hat:D