This Short Street venue (not to be confused with the New Central Ballroom) was open from the mid 50’s through to the ‘70s with bands, such as The Bandits, playing upstairs and downstairs, simultaneously, or parallel to a disco downstairs.
At kicking out time it was a short hop to the stop to catch the 2am bus. Reportedly you just had to be careful when the Paras turned up. In the early ‘70’s Keith ? was steward and David Cantillon, Charlie Sloman and Neil Stewart worked behind the bar.
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