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When Sheffield metal went underground Shirley's...
Rock music was having a pretty tortuous existence in the latter half of the 1970s in Sheffield. It was all sweetness and light in the early part of the decade...
When Sheffield metal went underground Shirley's...
Rock music was having a pretty tortuous existence in the latter half of the 1970s in Sheffield. It was all sweetness and light in the early part of the decade...

Coventry’s forgotten revelers set to re-shape E...
Our book containing the little-known stories of Coventry folk and their nights out in the 1970s is set to play a key role in a re-think of tourism across Europe!...
Coventry’s forgotten revelers set to re-shape E...
Our book containing the little-known stories of Coventry folk and their nights out in the 1970s is set to play a key role in a re-think of tourism across Europe!...

Love it or hate it – West Street’s enduring aft...
Peter Stringfellow blamed ‘the West Street crowd’ for the regular trouble in his Penthouse club in the late 1960s – he ended up selling up after a few months and...
Love it or hate it – West Street’s enduring aft...
Peter Stringfellow blamed ‘the West Street crowd’ for the regular trouble in his Penthouse club in the late 1960s – he ended up selling up after a few months and...

“My girlfriend cried her eyes out when it shut”...
It was one of Sheffield’s most popular pubs and some have never got over the day it shut in 1973. In fact the owners were that worried about souvenir hunters...
“My girlfriend cried her eyes out when it shut”...
It was one of Sheffield’s most popular pubs and some have never got over the day it shut in 1973. In fact the owners were that worried about souvenir hunters...

Drumstick in one hand, paintbrush in the other ...
Though people talk about the golden years of the cabaret and Working Men’s Club circuit of the 1970s and early 1980s, it definitely was anything but plain sailing for venues...
Drumstick in one hand, paintbrush in the other ...
Though people talk about the golden years of the cabaret and Working Men’s Club circuit of the 1970s and early 1980s, it definitely was anything but plain sailing for venues...

Peter Stringfellow's Penthouse nightmare became...
Few people realise Peter Stringfellow had more than a little hand in the future launch of the region’s undisputed king of rock clubs. It was he that opened the Penthouse...
Peter Stringfellow's Penthouse nightmare became...
Few people realise Peter Stringfellow had more than a little hand in the future launch of the region’s undisputed king of rock clubs. It was he that opened the Penthouse...