can be found here about the Fylde coast.
Well a trip down memory lane.
The Cherry Tree Gardens Hotel was temporarily called “Your Father’s Moustache”, to try to regain customers who had been drawn into Blackpool centre for their entertainment. Low building, one floor. Played silent movies during the band breaks - did a lot of business with the student population!
No Photos of the original "Your Father's Moustache" but I did spend a lot of time there! I think. Played there too on occasion. Beer in 3 pint jugs - Tables nailed down and several hours of a banjo band playing old time and new time songs. Nearly seemed to finish with a rip roaring version of "Delilah" by Tom Jones. Staggered or drove home , best forgotten perhaps.
The club was run by a chap called Butch - an American, I did believe there was another club in the States. An internet search will reveal a syndicated name and many clubs too. They owned a hearse - which was dragged out for Rag Day parades - the band used to play on it.
When I became sensible got married and such stuff I heard that the club had closed. But that it had reinvented itself in the middle of Blackpool as "The Tache" Visited a couple of times - mates of mine played there and in the early days quite a few big name bands played there.
The next excerpt is from the "Evening Gazette" on the demise of the "Tache" late 2011 - Seems that it is going to rise from the ashes for a third time.
The Tache nightclub, Cookson Street. Blackpool
Published on Monday 31 October 2011 11:49
LANDMARK rock club The Tache has secured a new home.
The club which has been operated on Cookson Street for 31 years was in danger of vanishing following compulsory purchase.
The building will now be demolished early next year but the name will move lock, stock and beer barrel to Beat nightclub, above The Rose and Crown on Corporation Street.
“All the staff, including DJs, bar staff and door staff will keep their jobs and we will do our best to recreate the special Tache atmosphere,” said Beat owner Robert Wynne.
“Bar prices and opening hours will be the same and hopefully the unique Tache customers will stick with us.
“On busy nights we will be open on two floors, just like the current venue.”
Beat will be renamed The Tache and as much of the current décor as possible will move as well.
“We have been working for several months on the project with Tache owner Ron Blunden and we have his full support,” said Mr Wynne.
“We hope to be true to The Tache ideals but also add to them with regular rock band nights, hopefully with some big out of town bands.”
The original Tache will hold a celebratory final night on November 19 and hundreds of tickets have already been sold with many former Tache regulars heading back from far and wide to pay a final visit.
It will re-open five days later in its new home.
“I am delighted that The Tache is carrying on and that all the staff and DJs are safe in their jobs,” said Mr Blunden.
Security manager John Weber, who has been at the Tache for 17 years and who will be a partner in the new venue said: “I have been looking after The Tache customers for years, taking their pictures and making sure they are safe and I will be looking forward to doing the same at the new site.”
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Beachbum66
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 01:30 PM
Once played a great gig in the tach in a band called Rik Rak. In true rock n roll style an audience member was throwing things at out lead singer Pete, this gradually got worse as we got closer to a guitar solo. A bottle was then thrown at Pete and as the guitar solo started Pete jumped off the stage, jumped on the lad throwing things, kicked the sh1t out of him as we all played on looking at each other as the fight happened on the dance floor. Pete then managed to jump back on stage seconds before the end of the guitar solo the go straight back into full verse! it was one of the most bonkers well timed acts of musical violence I have ever seen! Quality days.
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Brian Damage
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 02:03 PM
Yeah the Tache was run down which I didn't like but the peeps in there have always been great, don't consider myself a regular but I've had some great times and chatted to some interesting characters, it was never dull! I'll definately have to pop in to the new venue and I for one will not miss the sticky carpet! :-)
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HoHoKam
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 03:29 PM
Bring back Paddy McGinty's Goat!
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Robwilcock
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 09:20 AM
8 Ramseyguy. I think you are living in the past from about 50 years ago. I am one of those greasy biker types you refer to and you will find that 99.9 percent of bikers are normal everyday extremely well behaved people
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Cynical Observer
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 11:02 PM
From 'Chariebubbles' - The words - "Don't laugh - your daughter might be in here' written over the door 30 years ago still makes me smile" The statement is a wonderful expression of the late 70s attitudes and also an obsevation on the old fashioned family holiday with 'dad' aged 40 something out for a 'breath of fresh air' and, erm, daughter aged teen something, doing her stuff in a blackpool disco! As a 'people watcher' at the time these kind of encounters only seemed to happen between 1974 and 1979... the I suppose 'lessons were learned' and the generation gap became more obvious!
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charliebubbles
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 06:31 PM
The words - 'Don't laugh - your daughter might be in here' written over the door 30 years ago still makes me smile. I once went in there, circa 1983 and heard a Gary Glitter tribute act singing 'Toilet Roll' to the thumping tune of his big 70s hit, 'Rock n' Roll' . I nearly haemorrhaged laughing.
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revoe lad
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 06:23 PM
I've not been in for around 15 years, but still see it as the end of an era. I used to go there regularly and even spent my 21st birthday upstairs in Squires. I wonder if they'll take the renowned sticky carpet to the new venue.
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Casee'Pheonix'Leigh
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 05:04 PM
Feeling the love from fellow Tache goers, and that's the point! When I grew up I was the only kid in my town that I knew listened to rock music, nicking my dads rock compilation cds to have a listen, nothing is better and more soothing to me than the sound of an electric guitar. When I moved to Blackpool in 1998 the Tache was and still the only place I ever felt accepted for being me! I didn't just GO there, I grew up there!!
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bella17
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 04:52 PM
This is comment in response to plug PLUG UGLY: You clearly must not go out much and you definitely do not go much to BAR19 to pass a judgement on the venue. To call BAR19 venue is hilarious. There is hardly ever any trouble there compared to many other venues in Blackpool. Get your facts right before you decide to insult reputable venues :-)
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Javura
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 04:50 PM
My fiancé and I had our first kiss in the Tache in 2009, and I've several good friends who frequent the club. It's always been a wonderfully welcoming place and felt much safer that other parts of Blackpool (day or night). I'm so glad that such an asset to the town has been saved. The forbidding frontage probably owes as much to the abandoned shops and the surrounding awfulness (bus station, anyone?) as to the fact that there's not much point in doing somewhere up if you're going to get chucked out by the council so they can tear the place down. Good luck to all the staff and regulars! I hope the Tache is still around for my kids to enjoy when they are old enough. Maybe it's time for Blackpool to embrace the black pound, after all the pink pound adds welcome vitality already.
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gigglegabble
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 03:58 PM
fully agree the tache runs on respect ...ive been going in there for 31 yrs and have only ever seen trouble twice ...once thanks to visiting slaves who the police refused to deal with !! and the second was just a scuffle and was sorted out by the regulars who do not condone violence or kick offs in their local ...if there were more venues run like the tache the policing costs in town would halve
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EddieUK
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 03:47 PM
I am not sure the 1000's of people who go to the gay bars as opposed to the 100's that went to the Tache would agree with you plug ugly but variety is the spice of life and as long as everyone is happy, who cares..Good Luck to the Tache
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EddieUK
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 03:38 PM
The Tache was bought under compulsory purchase when town hall chiefs agreed to pay out £400,000 to make way for Council Offices as part of the £250m Talbot Gateway. The Nightclub is now being moved to premises owned by Robert Wynne or should I say Councilor ex Blackpool Mayor Robert Wynne owner of the Rose & Crown premises. I am sure you all know where the Rose & Crown is, it's on the same street as the lights that cost £3.5m while other streets are full of potholes. mmhhhh
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Bobby Fett
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 03:24 PM
Ramseyguy ....... I'm guessing you are pretty narrow mined as your literacy skills are limited too. If you don't like the kind of places that keeps Blackpool going all year round either come up with a sensible suggestion or move away ...... preferably the second one as your outdated discriminative comments are needed as much as a visit from the EDL !!
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Casee'Pheonix'Leigh
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 02:32 PM
Ramseyguy could you be anymore of an idiot? Seriously in the 12 years I've been going to the Tache the majority of people who go there are NOT bikers, they're kids who likes metal music and have nowhere else to go cos we run into fraggles like yourself who want to beat us up for not being you!! And if it wasn't for "Gayland" the town's economy would be ten times worse than it already is!!!
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ViveLa Revolution
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 02:14 PM
Ramsayguy.... it may look rough and so may many of the regulars but i can honestly say that in the 20 odd years i have been frequenting the place i think i have seen maybe 2 or 3 instances of trouble, thats in 20 years remember , unlike nearly evey other late night bar in Blackpool full of drunken brain dead chavs many of whom think they are a cross between Rocky and Rambo. you might get lots of big bikers and the like, but you will get very little bother. This is true of most 'Rock' venues throughout the country i hasten to add.
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vexpez
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 02:10 PM
LOL, the comments from people who've never been in..okay it looks cack outside and yes it's cack inside as well, we don't need poncey disco nightclubs. Hairy Greasy bikers don't run around town, they climb on their hairy greasy bikes and look cool. It was the only place in town where you'd rarely get any trouble, and when you did it was holidaymakers who'd walked into the wrong places p**sed or the occassional altercation with the Satans Slaves. Do yourself a favour and stop being so narrow minded and think you can tell by looking at people that you can judge them. I went when I was 21 and that was 26 years ago, and the thing that runs through The Tache is basic RESPECT.
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gigglegabble
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 02:05 PM
long live the tache n king ron ;)
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gigglegabble
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 02:04 PM
brilliant news that the tache will carry on elsewhere.. all my family ahve been tache customers over the 31 yrs its been there and squires before ...to all you non believers you should of tried it before you open your mouths in dissent ..the tache has virtually no trouble or fights and caters for a mixed age group from 18 to 80 all the punters know n love ron and wish him and all the staff the very best in their new venture xxxxxxxxxx
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Montay fookman
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 01:49 PM
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ms g williams
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 01:35 PM
not been in for years long live the sticky carpet club
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Robedo
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 01:30 PM
Long live The Tache (and Ron) and all that drink in there
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jonbamboro
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 01:23 PM
The Tache is dead....................... long live The Tache!
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SandgrownUn
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 01:08 PM
Sheepdog, have you ever been in? It is many years since I've been in but as Interesting says nearly every night in there was one of my best. Nice to see it's got a new home.
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Interesting
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 12:51 PM
looks aside i've had endless good nights in there and met some of the best people being inside that building you dont need a posh club to mean its a good club!
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Sheepdog
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Got to pull it down before it falls down. Man alive , youd have to knock it down to build a slum. Whose idea was it to paint it battleship grey? Everytime i went past it looked like it had been condemed , cant believe people paid good money to go into what look likes a death trap demolition site.
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vexpez
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Not a complete surprise, but excellent nonetheless. Hopefully it won't smell of toilet disinfectant LOL. See you on the 19th Ron.
There is so much on the internet about the demise of the "Tach" - just search.
The pictures below show maybe, just maybe, why the council compulsorily purchased these properties.
The Cherry Tree Gardens Hotel was temporarily called “Your Father’s Moustache”, to try to regain customers who had been drawn into Blackpool centre for their entertainment. Low building, one floor. Played silent movies during the band breaks - did a lot of business with the student population!
No Photos of the original "Your Father's Moustache" but I did spend a lot of time there! I think. Played there too on occasion. Beer in 3 pint jugs - Tables nailed down and several hours of a banjo band playing old time and new time songs. Nearly seemed to finish with a rip roaring version of "Delilah" by Tom Jones. Staggered or drove home , best forgotten perhaps.
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| Richard "Muttonchops" Johnston Known to have played at YFM in Blackpool |
The club was run by a chap called Butch - an American, I did believe there was another club in the States. An internet search will reveal a syndicated name and many clubs too. They owned a hearse - which was dragged out for Rag Day parades - the band used to play on it.
When I became sensible got married and such stuff I heard that the club had closed. But that it had reinvented itself in the middle of Blackpool as "The Tache" Visited a couple of times - mates of mine played there and in the early days quite a few big name bands played there.
The next excerpt is from the "Evening Gazette" on the demise of the "Tache" late 2011 - Seems that it is going to rise from the ashes for a third time.
Legendary rock venue saved
The Tache nightclub, Cookson Street. Blackpool
Published on Monday 31 October 2011 11:49
LANDMARK rock club The Tache has secured a new home.
The club which has been operated on Cookson Street for 31 years was in danger of vanishing following compulsory purchase.
The building will now be demolished early next year but the name will move lock, stock and beer barrel to Beat nightclub, above The Rose and Crown on Corporation Street.
“All the staff, including DJs, bar staff and door staff will keep their jobs and we will do our best to recreate the special Tache atmosphere,” said Beat owner Robert Wynne.
“Bar prices and opening hours will be the same and hopefully the unique Tache customers will stick with us.
“On busy nights we will be open on two floors, just like the current venue.”
Beat will be renamed The Tache and as much of the current décor as possible will move as well.
“We have been working for several months on the project with Tache owner Ron Blunden and we have his full support,” said Mr Wynne.
“We hope to be true to The Tache ideals but also add to them with regular rock band nights, hopefully with some big out of town bands.”
The original Tache will hold a celebratory final night on November 19 and hundreds of tickets have already been sold with many former Tache regulars heading back from far and wide to pay a final visit.
It will re-open five days later in its new home.
“I am delighted that The Tache is carrying on and that all the staff and DJs are safe in their jobs,” said Mr Blunden.
Security manager John Weber, who has been at the Tache for 17 years and who will be a partner in the new venue said: “I have been looking after The Tache customers for years, taking their pictures and making sure they are safe and I will be looking forward to doing the same at the new site.”
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Beachbum66
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 01:30 PM
Once played a great gig in the tach in a band called Rik Rak. In true rock n roll style an audience member was throwing things at out lead singer Pete, this gradually got worse as we got closer to a guitar solo. A bottle was then thrown at Pete and as the guitar solo started Pete jumped off the stage, jumped on the lad throwing things, kicked the sh1t out of him as we all played on looking at each other as the fight happened on the dance floor. Pete then managed to jump back on stage seconds before the end of the guitar solo the go straight back into full verse! it was one of the most bonkers well timed acts of musical violence I have ever seen! Quality days.
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Brian Damage
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 02:03 PM
Yeah the Tache was run down which I didn't like but the peeps in there have always been great, don't consider myself a regular but I've had some great times and chatted to some interesting characters, it was never dull! I'll definately have to pop in to the new venue and I for one will not miss the sticky carpet! :-)
26
HoHoKam
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 03:29 PM
Bring back Paddy McGinty's Goat!
25
Robwilcock
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 09:20 AM
8 Ramseyguy. I think you are living in the past from about 50 years ago. I am one of those greasy biker types you refer to and you will find that 99.9 percent of bikers are normal everyday extremely well behaved people
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Cynical Observer
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 11:02 PM
From 'Chariebubbles' - The words - "Don't laugh - your daughter might be in here' written over the door 30 years ago still makes me smile" The statement is a wonderful expression of the late 70s attitudes and also an obsevation on the old fashioned family holiday with 'dad' aged 40 something out for a 'breath of fresh air' and, erm, daughter aged teen something, doing her stuff in a blackpool disco! As a 'people watcher' at the time these kind of encounters only seemed to happen between 1974 and 1979... the I suppose 'lessons were learned' and the generation gap became more obvious!
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charliebubbles
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 06:31 PM
The words - 'Don't laugh - your daughter might be in here' written over the door 30 years ago still makes me smile. I once went in there, circa 1983 and heard a Gary Glitter tribute act singing 'Toilet Roll' to the thumping tune of his big 70s hit, 'Rock n' Roll' . I nearly haemorrhaged laughing.
22
revoe lad
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 06:23 PM
I've not been in for around 15 years, but still see it as the end of an era. I used to go there regularly and even spent my 21st birthday upstairs in Squires. I wonder if they'll take the renowned sticky carpet to the new venue.
21
Casee'Pheonix'Leigh
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 05:04 PM
Feeling the love from fellow Tache goers, and that's the point! When I grew up I was the only kid in my town that I knew listened to rock music, nicking my dads rock compilation cds to have a listen, nothing is better and more soothing to me than the sound of an electric guitar. When I moved to Blackpool in 1998 the Tache was and still the only place I ever felt accepted for being me! I didn't just GO there, I grew up there!!
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bella17
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 04:52 PM
This is comment in response to plug PLUG UGLY: You clearly must not go out much and you definitely do not go much to BAR19 to pass a judgement on the venue. To call BAR19 venue is hilarious. There is hardly ever any trouble there compared to many other venues in Blackpool. Get your facts right before you decide to insult reputable venues :-)
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Javura
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 04:50 PM
My fiancé and I had our first kiss in the Tache in 2009, and I've several good friends who frequent the club. It's always been a wonderfully welcoming place and felt much safer that other parts of Blackpool (day or night). I'm so glad that such an asset to the town has been saved. The forbidding frontage probably owes as much to the abandoned shops and the surrounding awfulness (bus station, anyone?) as to the fact that there's not much point in doing somewhere up if you're going to get chucked out by the council so they can tear the place down. Good luck to all the staff and regulars! I hope the Tache is still around for my kids to enjoy when they are old enough. Maybe it's time for Blackpool to embrace the black pound, after all the pink pound adds welcome vitality already.
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gigglegabble
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 03:58 PM
fully agree the tache runs on respect ...ive been going in there for 31 yrs and have only ever seen trouble twice ...once thanks to visiting slaves who the police refused to deal with !! and the second was just a scuffle and was sorted out by the regulars who do not condone violence or kick offs in their local ...if there were more venues run like the tache the policing costs in town would halve
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EddieUK
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 03:47 PM
I am not sure the 1000's of people who go to the gay bars as opposed to the 100's that went to the Tache would agree with you plug ugly but variety is the spice of life and as long as everyone is happy, who cares..Good Luck to the Tache
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EddieUK
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 03:38 PM
The Tache was bought under compulsory purchase when town hall chiefs agreed to pay out £400,000 to make way for Council Offices as part of the £250m Talbot Gateway. The Nightclub is now being moved to premises owned by Robert Wynne or should I say Councilor ex Blackpool Mayor Robert Wynne owner of the Rose & Crown premises. I am sure you all know where the Rose & Crown is, it's on the same street as the lights that cost £3.5m while other streets are full of potholes. mmhhhh
14
Bobby Fett
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 03:24 PM
Ramseyguy ....... I'm guessing you are pretty narrow mined as your literacy skills are limited too. If you don't like the kind of places that keeps Blackpool going all year round either come up with a sensible suggestion or move away ...... preferably the second one as your outdated discriminative comments are needed as much as a visit from the EDL !!
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Casee'Pheonix'Leigh
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 02:32 PM
Ramseyguy could you be anymore of an idiot? Seriously in the 12 years I've been going to the Tache the majority of people who go there are NOT bikers, they're kids who likes metal music and have nowhere else to go cos we run into fraggles like yourself who want to beat us up for not being you!! And if it wasn't for "Gayland" the town's economy would be ten times worse than it already is!!!
12
ViveLa Revolution
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 02:14 PM
Ramsayguy.... it may look rough and so may many of the regulars but i can honestly say that in the 20 odd years i have been frequenting the place i think i have seen maybe 2 or 3 instances of trouble, thats in 20 years remember , unlike nearly evey other late night bar in Blackpool full of drunken brain dead chavs many of whom think they are a cross between Rocky and Rambo. you might get lots of big bikers and the like, but you will get very little bother. This is true of most 'Rock' venues throughout the country i hasten to add.
11
vexpez
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 02:10 PM
LOL, the comments from people who've never been in..okay it looks cack outside and yes it's cack inside as well, we don't need poncey disco nightclubs. Hairy Greasy bikers don't run around town, they climb on their hairy greasy bikes and look cool. It was the only place in town where you'd rarely get any trouble, and when you did it was holidaymakers who'd walked into the wrong places p**sed or the occassional altercation with the Satans Slaves. Do yourself a favour and stop being so narrow minded and think you can tell by looking at people that you can judge them. I went when I was 21 and that was 26 years ago, and the thing that runs through The Tache is basic RESPECT.
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gigglegabble
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 02:05 PM
long live the tache n king ron ;)
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gigglegabble
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 02:04 PM
brilliant news that the tache will carry on elsewhere.. all my family ahve been tache customers over the 31 yrs its been there and squires before ...to all you non believers you should of tried it before you open your mouths in dissent ..the tache has virtually no trouble or fights and caters for a mixed age group from 18 to 80 all the punters know n love ron and wish him and all the staff the very best in their new venture xxxxxxxxxx
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Montay fookman
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 01:49 PM
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ms g williams
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 01:35 PM
not been in for years long live the sticky carpet club
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Robedo
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 01:30 PM
Long live The Tache (and Ron) and all that drink in there
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jonbamboro
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 01:23 PM
The Tache is dead....................... long live The Tache!
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SandgrownUn
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 01:08 PM
Sheepdog, have you ever been in? It is many years since I've been in but as Interesting says nearly every night in there was one of my best. Nice to see it's got a new home.
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Interesting
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 12:51 PM
looks aside i've had endless good nights in there and met some of the best people being inside that building you dont need a posh club to mean its a good club!
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Sheepdog
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Got to pull it down before it falls down. Man alive , youd have to knock it down to build a slum. Whose idea was it to paint it battleship grey? Everytime i went past it looked like it had been condemed , cant believe people paid good money to go into what look likes a death trap demolition site.
1
vexpez
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Not a complete surprise, but excellent nonetheless. Hopefully it won't smell of toilet disinfectant LOL. See you on the 19th Ron.
There is so much on the internet about the demise of the "Tach" - just search.
The pictures below show maybe, just maybe, why the council compulsorily purchased these properties.
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| The bus station looming in the background - perhaps it's for the chop too! |
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| View towards the entrance The bus station is on the left |
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| Closer Still! |
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| A battered door - the only way in! |
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| Pretty run-down |
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| It seems far bigger inside than out! |
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| Looking from the bus station This is the last block of buildings left on this land. |
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| From the rear. Pretty much all car park. |
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| Gemini Blinds is the little building to the left. The Tache is the black and white building to the right |
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| Gemini Blinds |
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| Gemini Blinds - a separate small 2 story building |
Just spotted a photo of Ken Dodd wearing a your Father's moustache boater in Blackpool. If anyone knows how I can upload the photo please let me know by emailing golden Garter at live.com
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