NEWSLETTER MAY 2013

Splendid picture of the Granary building featured recently on the front cover of the Clifton Life magazine. Very nice!

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THE LAST NIGHT OF HE GRANARY WAS ON SATURDAY 27th AUGUST 1988.

We will be marking that special day with our 25th Anniversary of the closure on Sunday 25th August 2013.

We hope you can join us.

Gran Fan A.J.Samuels was at the club on the final night and luckily had his camera with him.

He captured the scene as the last few members left.

Andy Samuels told us ” The whole night is a bit hazy, for obvious reasons. The main things I remember are that firstly the bar pretty much carried on serving until the beer ran out, by which time it was well past the normal closing time. Also I can clearly remember walking into the gents at some point late in the evening to find that all the toilets had been removed from the cubicles, leaving just holes in the floor. Presumably someone had taken them as souvenirs…. I’ve no idea about the disappearance of the ‘House of Rock’ banner though, I don’t remember noticing if that had gone. Eventually it would appear that somebody decided to clear out everybody who was left, and so I end up standing on the pavement outside the front entrance with my friend Adrian Clay, still with pints in hand. By this time it was probably about 3.00am. As we’re stood there finishing our drinks, Les appears out of the entrance and gets chatting with us. He takes us down to Charlotte’s bar in the basement where he produces a crate of beer bottles from behind the bar and invites us to help ourselves. We stay there drinking and talking to Les for another hour or two before staggering off home. Unfortunately I have no recollection of what was said! So I think we were almost certainly the last to have a drink in the Granary and the last to leave that night. A few weeks later, as I recall, there was an attempt by a group of ravers to break into the building and hold an illegal party. I think we heard about it in the pub and went down to have a look but something happened to stop it before we got there, probably the police turned up or something. I’m not sure of the exact date of this but I think it may have been mentioned in Venue at the time.”

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PICTURES OF STORMTROOPER AT THE GRAN

Stormtrooper were a favourite at the club in the middle 70s with 5 gigs recorded in the Granary book though they are sure they played many more gigs there.

Back stage at the Granary Colin Boggy Bond from Stormtrooper takes his life in his hands sat under a dodgy roof that needs supporting by an acro prop. Also pictured in action on stage.