mysti77 wrote:Eagle > It's by the petrol station (kinda recessed so you don't really see it easily). Kinda in the back of the building where the LA Fittness Gym is
Do you know if it backs onto Spring Hill? I noticed when walking back from the station the other day that several large doors/windows were newly boarded and thought that it'd be a great location for a bar.
I think the current entrance recessed from Kirkdale means it has always looked a bit seedy...
Hello, I am new to the Forum but had to have a quick say!
Twilights was the best club in town for many years and the best value for money and only closed down some 6 years ago after a good 25 year stint. The people that owned the club were superb people, I should know I worked there! and as for the Regency Gaz, it was a private members only club which was owned by Twilights and was not at all seedy (although point taken about the appearance).
Since it was all closed down back in 2003, Sydenham has lost it's appeal to most people, so someone do something and brighten the nightlife up a bit! pretty please
parker wrote:To this day i find it amazing that within the back of that regency building theres a reasonably sized night club ''Glamour Lounge'', a Snooker Hall and an LA Fitness Fitness Centre (with a swimming pool) and then a large wedding dress shop taking up a lot of the retail space. The night club and Snooker Hall must be tiny, maybe what was once a nightclub is now a good size for a bar. Zanzibar!
bensonby wrote:apparently in its last incarnation - before being closed [shut?] down it was a right dump with the police in regular attendance to break up the fights...
*sounds a bit like the Greyhound just before that closed
The entrance to ''Glamour Lounge'' has always looked seedy, remember when it used to have part of it called ''Owl's Barn'' think it was called Chasers at some point too and had to close because of a shooting hence it reopening and changing its name.
The club was featured on a programme called Life Begins!
I hope its put to good use after all these years. Does anyone know if its application for a license was deemed successful??
Hello Bensonby,
The police attendance was not for the Regency or Twilights it was generally for the Greyhound, however, police always parked their cars down Spring Hill right outside the Regency - Facts please when quoting!
Sharon Barton wrote:The police attendance was not for the Regency or Twilights it was generally for the Greyhound, however, police always parked their cars down Spring Hill right outside the Regency - Facts please when quoting!
I said "apparently" as it is not my own experience, it is the experience of police officers I have spoken to who were based in the area at the time...
Sharon Barton wrote:
Hello, I am new to the Forum but had to have a quick say!
Twilights was the best club in town for many years and the best value for money and only closed down some 6 years ago after a good 25 year stint. The people that owned the club were superb people, I should know I worked there! and as for the Regency Gaz, it was a private members only club which was owned by Twilights and was not at all seedy (although point taken about the appearance).
Since it was all closed down back in 2003, Sydenham has lost it's appeal to most people, so someone do something and brighten the nightlife up a bit! pretty please
Hi Sharon
Thanks for the reply (& welcome to the Forum!).
I didn't realise that there used to be two venues there. I had always assumed that the entrance on Kirkdale (Regency?) was the main entrance and the boarded up windows/doors on Spring Hill were just the back entrance.
As I posted above, it looked like an ideal venue for a bar/club type place to be located on SH. Perhaps when the Greyhound gets off the ground (as a pub/restaurant), a bar-type venue - perhaps even a wine-bar (eek!) - could compliment the new square.
