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Post by Lolly Wed 20 Jan 2021, 12:33 pm

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My association with Barbara, such as it was, started around 1974/75. It’s hard to put a definite starting point to my Puffers experience but my good friend Tony Lowe assures me it was around this time. Puffers was a nightclub of sorts which later evolved into “Pemps” Well I say nightclub, it was more like a speakeasy from an old gangster movie but it holds a special place in the memory of me and hundreds of others. Come with me and we’ll take a trip back there, let’s start at the beginning shall we?


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Post by Hieronymous Wed 20 Jan 2021, 12:35 pm

Some good memories.
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Post by gassey Wed 20 Jan 2021, 3:07 pm

The author of the passage , Tony Topping , the people he refers to , Billy Harrison
  and BEV were then , and still are , very good friends of mine , his story is absolutely
  correct , many a grand night was finished off in Puffers / Pemps after a Saturday night
  tour of the town centre , drunken
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Post by jo anne Thu 21 Jan 2021, 11:39 am

Thanks, Lolly, that’s very entertaining. Smile

I kick myself sometimes for never venturing into Pemps now I know of its legendary status.
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Post by Tommytee Thu 21 Jan 2021, 3:51 pm

good read

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