Malcolm Robinson Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Anyone remember this place as was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threegee Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 I may well know the answer, but it wouldn't be fair to say, right away. Here's a secondary question that's a lot more difficult: What's the connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie/915 Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Could the place be in Newcastle close to the Laing Art Gallery and along from the old City Library? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Fox (foxy) Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 The Mayfair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtom Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 How about The Oxford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovalteeny Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 the mayfair, with the revolving stage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Robinson Posted December 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Top prize to Foxy and Ovalteeny. The Mayfair where the real rockers went! 2.15am mail train back to Morpeth every Satruday morning and then the walk home! Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symptoms Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Yep, all aboard the tootoo ... fond memories. I've posted here before about getting to and from the Mayfair in the late 60s ... I suppose anybody interested could do a search here. The traincops at the Central Station didn't like us lads hanging around for the train and would chase us off ... we would then buy a platform ticket (out of a machine, maybe cost 2d or 3d) and get on the tootoo with that. Obviously, there was no gadgie at Morpeth checking tickets in the middle of the night. Then the tramp home through all sorts of weather, including once knee deep in snow and only wearing my hippy sandals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie/915 Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 What about the all night cafe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Robinson Posted December 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 Opposite the train station Maggie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symptoms Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 It was in Pink Lane (the short cut to the Central Station from Clayton St). There were a couple of cafes there but the so-called 'all-nighter' shut at 2.30am ... it might even have been a Wimpy Bar. Anyway, its real claim to fame was the meeting place for the London gangster, Jack Carter, to meet his neice in the 1971 film Get Carter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I may well know the answer, but it wouldn't be fair to say, right away. Here's a secondary question that's a lot more difficult: What's the connection? Technicolor romance Maytime in Mayfair (1949). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Robinson Posted December 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Pink Lane, that was where the ....was it Billy Bottos nigthclub was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willy j. Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 Maggie the late night café opposite the Central Station was called 'BOWERS'. All the groups in the area would congregate there on Fri/Sat/Sun nights after gigs. Lots of 'groupies' too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie/915 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 I was never brave enough to use the cafe.In the late sixties it was either the Morris Minor or my Dad's A40.(bench seat )Parking did not seem to be a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith lockey Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 So it wasn't the back room of the Blue Bell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie/915 Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 Not sure of your comment Keith!Maybe more your life than mine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul mann Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Went to the Majestic more than the Mayfair. Remember seeing The Animals at The Mayfair - with The Junco Partners as the warm-up act. The GoGo was fun any night - got any pictures of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Fox (foxy) Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 No pictures of the Go Go but the Juncos are still going, he was probably wearing that coat when you last saw them,.. this is them at the Journal Tyne Theatre December last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Robinson Posted January 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 This........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threegee Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 Technicolor romance Maytime in Mayfair (1949). Yay! A belated New Year's gong goes to Eggy! And.. the photo is of course of Anna Neagle, who hardly gets a mention today even assuming current generations know the name. Such is tinsel-town fame! A leading star in British films for over 25 years from 1932, she won several awards as Britain's favourite actress and biggest female box-office draw. She was awarded a CBE in 1952 and created DBE in 1969. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie/915 Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Even the Glen Miller Orchestra.The legend does live on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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