The Place - forgotten

The Place Discotheque in Hanley was one of the great nightclubs of the past. Opening in the 1960s, it had a run of many years as a smoky blues club – with the likes of a young Rod Stewart appearing there – then as one of the first ‘discos’ in the UK.
It was so famed there were a couple of books written about it.

And now? The building is still there, and has had lives (under other names) as a cheesy bar and then a lap-dancing and swingers club - but the name and history itself is largely forgotten...
…except for this miserable little street-sign, which marks the undistinguished alleyway that runs down the side of the building. Perhaps the local authority put it up as a piece of heritage-remembrance.

But, how the mighty are fallen, eh?

Link:  The Place – memories