Work going on at what was the casino at Harrogate Road/Street Lane

Brunel · Post by **Brunel** » Mon 28 Jul, 2014 4:36 pm

I believe it will be a lot better looking and more useful building following the reconstruction.

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon 28 Jul, 2014 6:05 pm

A dim and distant memory - wasn't there a "young peoples club" round the side/back of this building in the 1960s called the Skeleton Key? I seem to remember playing gigs there in my (much) younger days.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 28 Jul, 2014 7:31 pm

Thanks Brunel for posting the photo.

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Tue 29 Jul, 2014 3:56 pm

jim wrote: A dim and distant memory - wasn't there a "young peoples club" round the side/back of this building in the 1960s called the Skeleton Key? I seem to remember playing gigs there in my (much) younger days. Your memories good jim

jim · Post by **jim** » Tue 29 Jul, 2014 3:58 pm

Thanks uncle mick. Do you have a date for that?

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Tue 29 Jul, 2014 4:06 pm

jim wrote: Thanks uncle mick. Do you have a date for that? Its one & only entry in the phone book was in 1975

Brunel · Post by **Brunel** » Tue 29 Jul, 2014 4:20 pm

One of the owners is still around.

jim · Post by **jim** » Tue 29 Jul, 2014 6:11 pm

Thanks uncle mick, my diaries show ten years earlier for my involvement, so perhaps the club was going for some time without a phone book entry,

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 29 Jul, 2014 9:32 pm

jim wrote: Thanks uncle mick, my diaries show ten years earlier for my involvement, so perhaps the club was going for some time without a phone book entry, Slighty off-topic (again), but it's amazing how many people simply didn't have a phone not that long ago.Neither of my grandparents had a phone - my paternal grandmother simply never got one, with messages having to be relayed via relatives living nearby if they couldn't wait until we next saw her and my maternal grandparents didn't get a phone until well into the 90's.It seems archaic now, when virtually everyone carries a phone on their person 24/7, but thats just how it was.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Tue 29 Jul, 2014 9:49 pm

Talking of phones our house got one in the late 1960s. It had to be a shared line with a near-by house and if either of us were using the phone the other could not! It was like that for quite some time before it became a single line.