Rock Re.United - The Place for Old Sheffield Rock

Dove n Rainbow the Wap was never as good as this current rock bar, the beer certainly wasn't	The Buccaneer Bar - Long Lost Rock Bar where Henrys bar was - Alan's web site remembers the 70s	Rock - Links Current other rock links to visit, venues, bands, rock, roll, metal	Main Homepage- The Wookie
The Limit This page writes itself, send your memories	Kay Gee Bee The Home Of Sheffield Rock Before Penthouse was repoened as Rebels	Classic Rock Bar DJ Buffy - Classic rock nights, rock bands and Karaoke	Rebels Page All about the long lost club - Now with reader's comments page too

This is the first selection from Jan and her friends who have lots of pictures of the rock scene from 1982 to 1999.

the girls are Jan and Sandie ( sisters) Rachael and Sarah (sisters) Lindsey and Annette , whom have been best friends from the eighties to present day

I'll Let Jan introduce her feelings about the Wapentake Bar : -

Where would life be without the WOP. Olga was wonderful.. great landlady , she loved the rockers and we loved her. Her son Gary always had a smile on his face , infact all the bar staff were fab.
Dark and atmospheric .. well that was one way to describe it!! Great music with Ken at the helm, he played all our tracks and we danced until we dropped ..

In a haze of Jack Daniels we would boogie the night away meeting lots of friends. we would wear weird and wonderful get ups - the backcombed hair, lycra trousers, scarf round the legs, silk jackets - denim and leather... I feel a song coming on!!

Best memories were when Def Leppard played their acoustic set and Christmas. My memories of the rock scene are filled with both happiness and sadness. Happiness for the wonderful people and friends I have made along the way who have shaped my life. Rock folk are the best, easy to get on with , genuine and warm with a love of life and music.

As Mentioned above, Def Leppard played the Wap and Jan was one of the lucky people with a pass to see this bit of local rock history, here it is.

This Selection are from Olga's Leaving party :-

This picture shows Olga making a speech with presents and goodbyes -

These three show the old Wapentake Bar area.

Above the Till here is a newspaper clipping featuring Olga entilted "Never Too Old To Wap and Roll"

Here We have a shot of Ken, the long serving Wapentake DJ

Ken always stuck rigidly to Vinyl for most of the wap days, and as you can see here he was using his old style disco set up for playing all those favourite rock classics. The sound in those days was always a little wooly, and the loudspeakers looked as if they seen rather a lot of decades of faithful service.

Where he set up was originally a food serving counter, and he used to take people's coats and put them at the back on a shelf at the side of his record collection. For safe keeping, it was often quite hot down in the Wap.

Roy about Ken : -
Ken was a character and could always be relied upon to play far too much Jethro Tull than most of us wanted to listen to.

I seem to remember Ken quite liking looking after the coats of some of the prettier girls . .