Wigan Album
Scholes
14 CommentsPhoto: RON HUNT
Item #: 33923
Images sent to me by “chooch from Kirkby” Anyone remember him, He was a regular at the club?
Some of the most influential blues players on this programme,incredible.John Lee Hooker,tickets 5 shillings,and soon to follow Sonny Boy Williamson and the Moody Blues.Statement 'why go to Manchester when you can come to Wigan',how times change.
This place was once the Scholes Picture House. Who’d have thought it! I never went there after the Picture House closed.
I never went either Veronica, after it was Scholes Pictures, hard to believe this was on our doorstep!!
I frequented this venue for a while, can't remember seeing John Lee Hooker or Sonny Boy Williamson there but I wish I had!! I remember it being a very atmospheric blues club.
I joined when it opened, think my membership no. was 006. Remember, John Lee Hooker and Moody Blues hadn’t made it big at that time.
Went o Scholes Picture House to see Glenn Miller Story with my mate Charlie from Knellers butchers and our gang from De Havilland.
This was a all-nighter well before the casino
Ron went there in the 60s,still got the business card off the victor brox blues train group,all nighters there before the casino.
This must have been when they also brought Sister Rosetta Tharpe over from the USA and ITV did a TV broadcast from Chorlton railway station ? Rosetta Tharpe has a clip from this show over on Youtube . The crowd were on one platform and the acts were on the opposite railway platform. She has only recently been belatedly inducted, years after her death, into the Rock & Roll hall of fame . I only found out about Sister Rosetta Tharpe very recently and wow she was amazing. She played lead guitar before almost everybody. She is now regarded as the 'Godmother of Rock & Roll'.
Seen that clip of Rosetta Tharpe,it's brilliant.
Can anyone remember the period, the Bluesville was open?. My memory is fading. I do remember locals pointing out the “Drug Squad” arriving in the early hours. To my surprise it was a guy in a flat cap and tweed overcoat with a belt. If he was undercover, it didn’t work. I will avoid saying they were more “innocent times”, they were “our” times. We were deffo not innocent (or guilty) just young and happy to be alive. Did anyone go to the Heaven and Hell in Manchester?
Never went to the Bluesville Club because it was before my time, so sadly missed out on seeing those great musicians.
But! I know one of the members of David John & The Mood. I haven't seen him for a while, but the last time we met was in a cafe; we sat drinking coffee and spent a couple of hours talking about music and the past music scenes, musicians, venues etc.
This was a band which should have been more successful and probably would have been if circumstances had been different.
Sadly, the lead vocalist passed away almost ten years ago.
went to opening night and can remember John lee, i spoke to him ,also David John who used to sing while standing sideways, after this I almost lived there,used to sleep upstairs in what used to be the projection room.