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Must bring back a few good memories for those that frequented the place in the early 60's. It does for me.
To start the ball rolling here is a link to the Peterborough Telegraph. There are some great pics of Lulu and the Luvvers and some of the Green familly who ran the place. Terry Rice Milton (Bull) and his first band were the support group for Lulu that night. I remember it well.
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/lookingback/Do-you-remember-when-Lulu.3950787.jp
Regards Dave Leishman.
Kate: Thanks Dave. Where are all those Lansbury Club crowd? Send in your memories.
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| Joan Stafford |
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Does anyone remember when the Lansbury Club had roller skating ? Didn't last long as it was very noisy for the people living around that area. But it was very popular with the youngsters. Perhaps something like that is needed again.
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| Patrick |
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I believe the Lansbury Hall was named after George Lansbury (1859 - 1940) one of the founders of the Labour Party. I have a vague recollection of him coming to Stamford in the mid-1930s to open the Hall. Can anyone confirm this? I believe the driving force behind the fund raising and building of the Hall was Councillor George Essex a life-long member of the Stamford Labour Party.
In 1944 I came home on a 48 hour leave from the Navy. I saw there was a dance at the Lansbury and decided to go. I found myself swamped by the US Air Force. I had one dance with a girl I went to school with and that was it. The locals didn`t get a look in! We retreated to the Balloon and went back in at 10.30 as the dance was ending to see if any girls wanted an escort home. The end of the evening was followed by an announcement that there was a party at the US base at Walcot Hall to which transport would be provided there and back for the ladies.
Next day back to sea thinking how Stamford was changing.
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| Clem Walden |
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Hi-Joan, I remember the Roller Skating at the Lansbury in the early 50s. Will Darns ran it, he had a shop in St Marys street, brought my first pair of jeans from him & the odd shirt, it was a little difficult with your skates on for the boys to visit the toilet if my memory serves me well, you needed to go down a lot of stairs as the gents was in the basement. had some great times at the old roller rink, fond memories.
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| Patrick |
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Will Darnes shop was called `Suitalls`. Wasn`t Will also the leader of the resident band at the Lansbury in the 40s and 50s? The band was called `The Black Diamonds.
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| Clem Walden |
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Hi-Patrick correct on both points re: Suitalls & the Band, Will Darnes was a very nice guy, his band was also vey good. old Suitalls shop supplied many of Stamfords "first teenagers" with the latest fashions. When one thinks back to the late 40s their were no teenagers as such the word had not been invented! you was either a school boy or an adult, in the earlier 50s all this changed "rock & roll" teenagers were born, Teddy Boys new fashions, forgive me for saying this but I always think my generation were the last of the real workers & the very first teenagers. Not meaning no one after ever worked, but meaning if you did not work the you could not go out & live life. there was no unemployment benifits, sick benefits, or job seekers monies, no work no pay, state benefits were not available, girls & boys in those days did the same as their parents & grandparents had done before them work or go without. things are much better now, or are they?
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| John Tyers |
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Heard somewhere that when George Lansbury opened the hall, he was accompanied by his daughter Angela, star of that irritating "Murder she wrote!" After the war the Labour Party ran socials there and later Bingo. We had not been married long, it was a long time until payday and my wife won about £30 in one session as I remember. I think there was quite a lot of controversy over the selling of the hall as it was built by voluntary subscription.
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