Just out of curiosity, can anyone add any dates and details to a brief history of a the building that ended recently?


Wakefield Trinity -196?

Wakefield Theatre Club

Bar/nightclub (possibly two)

Super Bowl

Cheers

Pussy cats night club.

Not sure.

I recalll going to Wakefield Theatre Club for a Wakefield Trinity Christmas Party for the juniors. All the players were there. I think may have co incided with a Toppos testimonial year.

Think it was around 79-80

I broke some hearts at Pussycats!

Good night out as well.

I heard it was dropped a few farts?

Poor old ladies

Jeez, The Tom Cruise fan club is posting!

Oh yes.

When it was the Theatre Club my auntie worked there and got to meet all the stars.
She even got me a signed picture of Mud once!
When it was Pussy Cats, a couple of my brother's mates served behind the bar in their brightly coloured boiler suits!
Unfortunately I'm too young to remember such high jinx!

Pity that because them were what you call nights out not like today

oh to be young again

I saw Bernard Manning at the old Theatre Club, great night but wouldn't get away with it today

Freddie Starr was the best.

Saw Tommy Cooper at Theatre Club. Took him about 5/6 blundering minutes to get on stage and through curtains. By then everyone was laughing hysterically My sides really were hurting. Then following absolute mayhem as he somehow finished his act. What a comedian !

The best

More Tom Baker to be honest

Pretty much it.

As a matter of interest the reason Trinity built a clubhouse/social club that large was that they intended it to be a Sydney style Leagues club with slots, casino and other facilities for members. Sadly the expected law change never happened (and still hasn't) and it became a huge white elephant. Imagine if that cash had been spent on a new main stand



This who dare wins attitude proved to be something of an on going issue with the wallies who ran the club as a few years later the perfectly serviceable South stand (also the newest) was knocked down to make way for a supermarket that never materialised! Talk about never learning.

Saw a lot of good comedians there but the one that made me and every one round us laugh most was Ken Goodwin. settle down now.

Class, as was all the comedians of that generation

"Hot Gossip" Say no more..

It was named the 'Pussycats' club around 1980 - sadly the decline of what was another great asset (the Theatre club-not the Pussycats club) to the city that wasn't supported!

It obviously wasn't that great an asset, or people would have gone? Times change, people want a different type of entertainment, and the patrons of a venue become middle aged and stop going out. The club was something of an anachronism for the final years of its life - and I say that with no joy - my family had a lot to do with that scene in Wakefield, and my Dad played the venue many times.

In the 80's, the whole Wakey scene became focused on Westgate - and it was a draw for people from all over the country; I had nights out then where you literally couldn't get a drink in some places it was so busy; happy days. Go there now before 11pm and it's virtually dead - with kids arriving in taxis to go clubbing til the early hours. So it goes.

Yeah, great was probably the wrong word, it's just that Batley Variety club survived many years after the Theatre club closed but perhaps two such venues within a few miles of each other was one too many.
Anyway the 'Pussycats club' was certainly not my cup of tea - hated it.

Bet you were a Heppy's man.

Heppy's brings back fond memories of The Kalahari Bushmen on Monday nights at Balne Lane club back in the mid-sixties. Great entertainment. Also fish,chips and mushy peas in his cafe on Warrengate.

Ah the old fish and strips - yeah happy days!

Steak Canadian and chips.