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Club in Orphanage Road, Erdington 60s

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svrman

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In the 60s there was a club set back off the road in Orphanage Road in a large wood building seemed to remember there were brown lapped boards on outside.

Two guys owned and ran it-anybody remember them or the club?
 
svrman said:
In the 60s there was a club set back off the road in Orphanage Road in a large wood building seemed to remember there were brown lapped boards on outside.

Two guys owned and ran it-anybody remember them or the club?
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Hi Svrman, the only club that I know or have Known in Orphanage road is this one.
Erdington Conservative club, just up the road from the fire station.
 
Found a post about the club svr.

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You don't give a date but in 1969 Kelly's 91A, Orphanage Road, Club Pandora, Social Club, next door to the Erdington Conservative Club Ltd.


Colin​
 
The Pandora-thats the one--first place i ever saw a police officer in uniform drinking!
Thanks very much
 
Someone asked about this in another thread - it was called the 91 Club in the late 60's and was known as 'The Shed'
 
OMgoodness, I know this post is old but I only found this forum last night at about 10 pm - didn't get to bed then until after midinight looking through all the old posts about nightclubs etc etc - had a fantastic time thinking about old times .................. then came across this post - the 91 club, me and my mate were there for about 3 - 4 years 1972/3 -1974/5???? it burned down in 1974/5 - we were devastated......................every friday night we used to be there 'Gill & Sue' if anyone remembers us, Monica and Eamon used to own it or run it when we were there. Had some fantastic nights there. It was so lovely to see this post. Don't remember it being the Shed though - my mom said it used to be a 'gentlemans' club in the 60's then it turned into a strip club???? It wasn't when we used to go there though.
 
Better late than never! It became the 91 club later on. Seems most clubs turn into strip joints, saddened to see that Bobby Browns is now a lap dancing club, boy did we have some nights in there!!!

Not much left now of the old clubs and haunts-the Elbow seems to be still going and Snobs and of course The Tower Ballroom escaped demolition recently and has a dance I think twice a month. I arranged a rather large lads night out in the 90s at The Tower but after a few beers most of them rembered what it really had used to be like and refused to go!
 
It was the 91 Club when I knew it, which would have been 1969-70 ish. Good place to congregate with terrific music from DJ Mac. Ran by, if I remember rightly, by a guy called Chris and his mate. Ironically it was next to the Conservative Club and Chris was a prospective Labour councillor at the time! First pig roast I ever went to was there and some lovely girls to dance with. Happy days!
 
My friend and I used to go there occasionaly around that time as we were pally with a band who used to play there sometimes - may be we were a couple of the lovely girls you danced with ?!! ;)
 
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Maybe! One of the groups who used to play there opened up with "Too much Monkey business". It got the people rocking onto the dancefloor from the start.:unconscious:
 
I played there with Indigo Set around '64/65. The Pandora had jazz weekly and we played Blues/R&B as support. The club was also a mini casino and the owner had a large alsatian dog.
 
Hi there . I remember one of them, he was my grandfather ( Des Jones ) .Scan10150.jpgThat's him pulling a pint. I was only young at the time . Thanks Matt
 
The 91 club ran by chris was so called because it was no 91 in irohanage road was practically burnt down at one time an other pkace iu nth else x50 s where you could get late drinking an I think chris did become a bham councillor at one time


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Long before the 91 Club, I'm sure this would be the hut where as a youth I used to go to the YENTON BOYS CLUB, would be late1940's early 1950's.
Any other old members out there reading this, please get in touch.
 
Austin K2 said:
Long before the 91 Club, I'm sure this would be the hut where as a youth I used to go to the YENTON BOYS CLUB, would be late1940's early 1950's.
Any other old members out there reading this, please get in touch.
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Greetings to all my fellow Erdingtonians,
I well remember the Yenton club. Tuesdays and Friday evenings. Along with the karate club held there. I equally remember a huge racist melee between my West Indian mates and the regulars which spilled onto the nearby Lyndhurst estate. Thank God for the 64 bus. Some smashing clubs back in seventies Erdington, the Sunday night Lyndhurst, the High Street Roebucks, the 91 club, and not to mention the Queen's Head, Peppers. Let the detractors say what they like about Erdington to me it was still the best place to spend my formative years.
 
svrman said:
In the 60s there was a club set back off the road in Orphanage Road in a large wood building seemed to remember there were brown lapped boards on outside.

Two guys owned and ran it-anybody remember them or the club?
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Are you talking about the 99 club which was bought by the Conservative party as there club RJP pype hayes
 
A Sparks said:
It was actually called the 91 club :)
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We always called it Eric's - I think that was the name of the man who ran it. It was down a driveway to the right of the Conservative Club. We always went on a Friday night and I remember walking there and back home during the winter of 1962/3. Funnily enough I can't remember why we all stopped going - maybe because I went with school friends and we left in the summer of '63. I suppose we all moved on.
 
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