First Night Club in Sheffield

[Royston]

Was Highway 61 the old "Teen Bar" by the side of what was once the Post Office along Heeley Bottom??

 

Also wasn't the Heartbeat above the ice rink opened before Josie's as the first club/disco??

[fatrajah]

I'm fairly sure that the Heartbeat & Silver Blades opened in late 1965. I definitely went to the Heartbeat a few times in 1967. The Heartbeat was a disco rather than a night club.

 

I think the Penny Farthing opened in early 1966 & was originally going to be called the "Discothete".

[melthebell]

I'm fairly sure that the Heartbeat & Silver Blades opened in late 1965. I definitely went to the Heartbeat a few times in 1967. The Heartbeat was a disco rather than a night club.

 

I think the Penny Farthing opened in early 1966 & was originally going to be called the "Discothete".

isnt it just semantics? night clubs are a later term for disco etc, just the terms have changed over the passage of time?

[fatrajah]

isnt it just semantics? night clubs are a later term for disco etc, just the terms have changed over the passage of time?

 

Yes, by the standards of 1960s the Heartbeat was a disco & the Cavendish (later Baileys) was a night club. Nowadays they would both be classed as night clubs.

[Royston]

Thanks for that as I was pretty sure we hung out first at the Heartbeat for a few months prior to going to Josie's.

[twinnie2]

oh gosh, i remember them all so must have spent lots of nights out in years gone by. was in fact secretary at Heart Beat @ 1967 time - great times. plus got free admission to Penny Farthing on 'nights off'.

[stpetre]

Yes, and the Blue Moon, Black Cat, Club 60, Mojo, there was something in S5 (I think) but can't recall the name, I saw Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders there.

 

That would be St.Christopher's Church hall on Bellhouse Road around spring 1964. They did not only do Sheffield groups there, a few from Liverpool and Manchester I saw.