Has anyone got any old photos of leighton court,it shut just as i was old enough to start drinking so i never had the pleasure of a few beers there,cheers

Indexed

This is the only one I have seen hanging around - but it is 1914 and a bit before the Country Club days.

nice pix d.d!

Did that become something like Norwegian Wood or am I thinking of the wrong place?

Nah that was on Market Street in Hoylake

Ahhhhhh - it's been a long while since I lived here

Err - Norwegian Wood was a different sort of club.

Snod

Ahhhhhh - was it the THI of its day??

THI ???? It was a nudist club (etc)

If I have to explain THI, you're not old enough to know

A LOT older than you Dear

Snod

I know that Snod but I don't want to corrupt your mind any more than it has already been corupted

Thanks to diggingdeeper for the photo

I worked in Leighton Court as DJ in 1980 There was a place called Westwood-Grange too ,there is also other pics

Some info on Leighton court

http://www.daveonline.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=73

The Westwood grange still exists, i think its now just called The Grange Country club, I was there not long ago in the Westwood Suite.

The Norwegian Wood, i done a job in there years ago and trust my luck it was full of men.

I remember wondering round the outside of leighton court about six months after it closed and was put out by how much it had deteriorated.

A friend had his 21st there, but i was too young to go as he was quite a few years older than i was, i think the last time i went (Xmas)we couldn't get in so we went to the Grange instead, it closed sometime in the new year.

Also a very good friend of mine broke his leg and used to go past on his crutches every day for his paper, he watched them knock the place down and put up shuttering ect to start building the houses !.

Time line going from memory...

I would think the Xmas i mentioned must have been 1982, and when i looked round at the dereliction was late summer 1983.
After a quick text message...my friend said he broke his leg the weekend of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, so it got knocked down in the weeks after !.

Sorry for being boreing....i'll get my coat !.

Blimey - Leighton Court and the Grange - nows theres a blast from the past! Ye Olde stomping grounds - still have fond memories of boogying to Kool & the Gang and Luther van dross .......... shame to know the places no longer exist!

I have uploaded a copy of an original DJ tape to Mixcloud recorded in 1980 , restored and uploaded , have a look on mix cloud under my name daveonline.