Wigan's brilliantly bonkers Boxing Day

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Does anyone know how this started?

Not sure but i think the pier nightclub had best fancy dress competition
one boxing day and every one was round town in fancy dress before going
to the nightclub and it took off from there.

gassey wrote:

 Not sure but i think the pier nightclub had best fancy dress competition
  one boxing day and every one was round town in fancy dress before going
  to the nightclub and it took off from there.

The Pier Nightclub opened as the 'Barge Inn' in 1977 which eventually closed down, in late 1979 it opened up as the Pier Discotheque and I was in there 'boogieing on down' the first week that it opened, we did a lot of 'boogieing' in the 1970s and sometimes that meant 'boogieing off' to Tiffanys or the Pier, but in Bluto's we didn't 'boogie' because it wasn't the sort of place where you 'boogied' it was more of a place where you had a fight

Boogieing on down in the Pier.





Actually, it was a bloody stupid place to put a Nightclub ....

Tommy Two Stroke..

Did you go to the top floor in Blutos , i think the dj was
up in the rafters , and if i remember reet blutos was one
of the first if not the first to to have a "big screen"

gassey wrote:


  Tommy Two Stroke..

  Did you go to the top floor in Blutos , i think the dj was
  up in the rafters , and if i remember reet blutos was one
  of the first if not the first to to have a "big screen"

Yep, I went on every floor, basement with the good jukebox, was open at lunchtimes and every night, upper floors at weekends only, I never really saw the wine bar on the ground floor, that came a bit later on in the life of the place.