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'Many a good night at Quaffers': Your memories of the legendary Stockport nightclub
06.02.2022 - 00:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
M.E.N readers have been sharing their memories of legendary Stockport nightclub Quaffers.
Opened in a former golf club in 1978, the iconic Stockport variety club welcomed huge names over two decades, from Shirley Bassey and the Drifters to Take That and George Best.
With a capacity of 2,600, the Hollingworth Road club boasted a lavish interior, as well as a rising stage, serving hot beef barms from its downstairs kitchen that many punters still remember today.
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The final curtain came down on the club in December 1998, with the site bulldozed in 2004 to make way for a Homebase superstore.
The Manchester Evening News recently took a look back at at the rise and fall of Quaffers and why it was loved - and these are just a few memories that readers have shared.
On The Manchester Evening News website, UnicornSparkle said: "I worked for Bredbury Hall for half a decade. I loved how elegant it was when I worked there. I’ve not been since 2018. I worked there in the noughties. The staff was all definitely well looked after. I’m gutted the Floods sold up."
Did you go to Quaffers? Share your memories of the club in the comments section below.
On Facebook, Vicki Gorman commented: "Went on a hen here, Bride's Mum, Aunties and even her grandma went too, I noticed a lot of men there that night and when the stage started to rise with a motorbike on it and a banner which read "MISS REAR OF THE YEAR " with ladies parading round with not a lot on. Put it this way, a few embarrassing faces from the older members of our party, ah the memories, so funny."
Barrie Schofield Snr wrote: "Cracking night in there back in the day."
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