Police have issued an urgent appeal to find an elderly man with dementia who was last seen getting on a bus on Monday afternoon (August 29). 88-year-old Joseph was last seen on Abbey Lane in Leigh after getting onto the 583 bus.
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A lost venue where gig-goers 'run the gauntlet' both getting there and once inside is said to have been the birthplace of punk in Manchester.
A mile or so outside the city centre, the Electric Circus was a live music venue in Collyhurst on the corner of Teignmough Street and Collyhurst Street. Described as a "seminal venue for punk rock in the 1970s", the building was originally the Palace Cinema and the Top Hat Club run by Bernard Manning, then later a bingo hall.
In the earlier part of the 1970s, the venue became renowned as a heavy metal club, that was until punk arrived at its doors in 1976. During these years, the building was in a poor state of repair, with Manchester photographer Kevin Cummins describing the place as a "khazi" adding: "everything was painted black so you couldn't see how s****y it was."
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Despite its dilapidated state, the venue hosted some of the biggest bands of the era, including Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Fall, The Jam, Motorhead and the Sex Pistols. In his online blog on Manchester's music scene, journalist Tonino Cagnucci describes the club's location in Collyhurst at the time as "a blighted post-industrial wasteland of rubble-strewn lots, abandoned buildings and crumbling housing projects".
Regarding punks with their unmistakable fashion-sense walking the nearby streets to attend gigs at the Electric Circus, he added: "The locals were none to pleased to see the freak show that had unexpectedly turned up on their doorstep every Sunday night, so they used the walkways from the abandoned council estate across the street to hurl bricks at the leather-clad punks waiting in line below."
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Police have issued an urgent appeal to find an elderly man with dementia who was last seen getting on a bus on Monday afternoon (August 29). 88-year-old Joseph was last seen on Abbey Lane in Leigh after getting onto the 583 bus.
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