michaelwicks54
Aston bred & proud.
Never went to dolls,I had heard about what it was & was scared to go in. I bet your lad had a great time.
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The daddy long legs club
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michaelwicks54
Aston bred & proud.
I heard there was another room, but never asked about it. I was only just 18 & a bit too laid back. Never knew what it was called before daddy long legs as I was new to clubbing.
michaelwicks54
Aston bred & proud.
Laurie knowledgeable brummie has reminded me that the club was dolls before daddy long legs. What it was before dolls, I just do not know. This has taken me back to my teens.(such a long time ago).
it was the "DOLLS CLUB" first i remember passing by that in the early '60's
These are the facts about club at High St Deritend (Digbeth) and Coventry Road
It started of as The Dolls club....a strip club that had football style turn styles to get in....
after that it became The Delcomica club.... Irish owned
Then it became Daddy Long Legs.... owned by Jim Smythe.... a car dealer........
lost it licence.... he took roof to avoid paying rates at the time....but no good...never got licence back from Birmingham, so demolished building and run by him as car pitch for short time...next door to Sheldon Industrial Cleaners
Jim Smythe and wife Agnes then got licence open club in Worcester than they run for few years
The Casterways was club in Bradford St on top floor....other floors in building were used by ATV to record episodes of soap Cross Roads...... many big names of day appeared there... then that became a strip club....,many years before Legs Eleven appeared .... Tom black cab taxi driver
michaelwicks54
Aston bred & proud.
Welcome to the forum Tom. I remember the Daddy Long Legs club. I used to go in there every Friday & Saturday. From what I remember, it was a very dark & dank little place. I used to get my drink & sit in one of the very dark corners (which there were many). Luckily, I was only 17 when it was the Dolls club & would not have got in. Daddy long legs was the only club I could get into at the time, even as I had turned 18, as I did not look old enough until I was in my mid 20's.
jmadone
master brummie
On my one and only visit to the Dolls Club I was only 16, still at school and very naive. Some of the guys in there I was convinced were gangsters and they scared the ........ out of me.
Strangely enough at a later date I was at a friend's house when his sister came in with some of her pals and one of them was introduced as Monique who worked as a "dancer" at the Dolls Club.
Strangely enough at a later date I was at a friend's house when his sister came in with some of her pals and one of them was introduced as Monique who worked as a "dancer" at the Dolls Club.
Jimmy Smyth was a friend of mine late sixties. At the time he was a car dealer and drove a red etype, I liked his car so much I bought a white one. I got to know him through an ex workmate who owned a used car site in Erdington, Jimmy was a great clubber and we often went to the cedar club and the Belfry.
Old Clubs..(.drinking dens) I used in 1970;s Birmingham
1 Daddy Long Legs Digbeth
2 Jig-Saw .. Alum Rock Road
3 Golden Gloves ... Moseley Road
4 Speak Easy .. Stratford Place (Moseley Road) Camp Hill
5 Garry Owen Small Heath
6 Talk of the Town Stratford Road Sparkhill
7 Cascade Club Showell Green Lane Sparkhill
8 International Club.... ???? who remembers this one.....owned by Bunny Johnston.... Boxer Small Heath
9 Cabaret Club.......who remembers this one Malcolm Locker House.... Moseley Road
10 Mocambo Club ..... Stratford Road Sparkbrook .near Vale-Onslow motor bike shop... and Garretts second hand shop underneath a cafe weekends only
That's only 10 that I can remember at mo...lol
1 Daddy Long Legs Digbeth
2 Jig-Saw .. Alum Rock Road
3 Golden Gloves ... Moseley Road
4 Speak Easy .. Stratford Place (Moseley Road) Camp Hill
5 Garry Owen Small Heath
6 Talk of the Town Stratford Road Sparkhill
7 Cascade Club Showell Green Lane Sparkhill
8 International Club.... ???? who remembers this one.....owned by Bunny Johnston.... Boxer Small Heath
9 Cabaret Club.......who remembers this one Malcolm Locker House.... Moseley Road
10 Mocambo Club ..... Stratford Road Sparkbrook .near Vale-Onslow motor bike shop... and Garretts second hand shop underneath a cafe weekends only
That's only 10 that I can remember at mo...lol
Time Traveller 66
master brummie
Never used them but remember the Oxford club Moseley and The Boundary club Acocks Green.
Alf Rogers
master brummie
Hi Taxi Tom! A great list of clubs you've listed there! Do you know where, or on which street, the International Club was situated? It sort of rings a bell, but I'm not sure.
Best wishes
Alf Rogers
1970's....The International Club was in Lawden Road or nearby... by railway arches... a public house ( can't remember name ) was a few doors away on same side of road.......road now gone under Bordesley circus / A45 intersection ...was owned by Bunny Johnson the famous boxer of his day...didn't last very long
