The following clubs have gone and are no longer in existence. This list is very likely to expand in the next couple of years, due to the recent unprecidented expansion of the club scene. If there is no club in the premeses anymore, or the building has gone, then they're here.
The Limit
West Street.
[ Dissapeared Early 1990's ]
A gig venue and club for Rock, Punk and later
Rave fans. Renowned for a bit of fighting and trouble. All drinking glasses
were made out of plastic. It was in the basement. The site is now levelled
and undeveloped, and now there is just a fence and a large advertising
hoarding.
The roof was very low, and the carpet very sticky,
some said that the sticky carpet was the only reason that you didn't bang
your head.
When rave music was very big in 1990, Loads of
pirate radio D.J.s were performing.
See Are We Over The Limit - all about what the limit was like
Legends / Crazy Daisy
High Street
[ Dissapeared Early 1990's ]
Apparently a great gig venue in the sixties, Led Zeppelin, Joe Cocker were reputed to have played here. A basement bar, where you entered from a doorway in the front of the Telegraph and Star building. As legends, it was open into the 90's for lunchtime drinking and meals. The doorway has been altered now and appears to be a lobby for the offices above.
Crazy Dazy is famous for being the bar where Phil
Oakey from The Human League discovered the two girl singers and propelled
them from the school sixth form to poptastic stardom... " I was working
as a waitress in a cocktail bar . . . "
Turnups / Bloomers / Tramps / The Barrow Boys
/ The Alleycats
Commercial Street, The Canada Building
[ Dissapeared Early 1990's ]
Two/Three venues in one, as far as I can Make
Out. Turnups had a sign outside with a chap on a bicycle with turnups on
the bottom of his trousers, and Bloomers had a lady showing her Bloomers
off. Both characters are depicted with a bicycle, One a penny farthing,
One a bone shaker.
This, the main part
of the venue, ran different nights. There were a lot of townie nights,
and a few which were frequented by goths.
Tramps was accesed through the back of Turnups or Bloomers, and it could have been the nightclub part of the venue. But I'm not sure about this. It was probably upstairs, or downstairs, or out the back in the old warehouse.
The Barrow Boys was a bar in the basement of canada house. Entry was gained from under the corporation street bridge. It was two large rooms, and there was a darts and a pool table. It was only open for a decade, and has been closed now since the early 1990's.
Canada house is a Victorian listed building and
very impressive.
Used as the Sheffield United Gaslight Company
offices. It was built in 1875. And can be accesed from commercial street,
or below in shude hill. It was built five years after the large railway
bridge that was built for the council as the road bridge it is today, by
Midland Railway.
This club was closed around 1995.
See the following link for rebels section for
more details >>>> REBELS