Where is Batley Variety Club?

Batley Variety Club is in Yorkshire, United Kingdom (postcode WF17 6HY), in the parish of Kirklees, unparished area.

How do I get to Batley Variety Club?

The nearest railway station is Batley, about 0.5 km away. Drivers can use postcode WF17 6HY.

Who owns Batley Variety Club?

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How do I get to Batley Variety Club?

The nearest railway station is Batley, about 0.5 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode WF17 6HY.

Gardens · Yorkshire & the Humber

Batley Variety Club

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Batley Variety Club — a garden in england-yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
Nearest railway station: Batley · 0.5 km

Dog-friendly

Getting there & planning your visit

To visit Batley Variety Club, the nearest railway station is Batley, located 0.5 km away. The postcode is WF17 6HY for sat-nav directions. Entry details are not provided, so please check in advance for accessibility information.

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Batley Variety Club is a garden of interest in england-yorkshire, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Batley Variety Club was a variety club in Batley, West Yorkshire, England. During its existence, the club staged concerts by performers including Louis Armstrong, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Eartha Kitt, Morecambe and Wise, Gene Pitney, Neil Sedaka, Ken Dodd, Helen Shapiro and Johnny Mathis. At the peak of its success, the club had 300,000 members. It closed about 1978 and reopened as "Crumpets" night club. It closed again shortly afterwards and its contents were auctioned off. It reopened as the "Frontier" in the early 1980s and this eventually closed in 2016. On hearing the news that the building was no longer to be used as a venue, singer Shirley Bassey commented, "I have many happy memories of singing at the Batley Variety Club so sorry to hear it is closing." The building was converted to a gym in 2017.

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Background

History

The club was designed and built by James and Betty Corrigan in early 1967 on top of a disused sewage site on Bradford Road in Batley. The build was interrupted when local authority inspectors discovered that the building was six inches too close to the road. Demolition took place and work continued but, despite this setback, the club managed to open on 27 March 1967 as planned. The headline act on opening night was The Bachelors. The Corrigans had travelled to Las Vegas to research how the clubs worked there in order to work out a design for Batley. The ground floor of the club was excavated so that on entering, the public would walk down to their tables which would be arranged in tiers,…

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Coordinates: 53.7065, -1.6266
District: Kirklees
Parish: Kirklees, unparished area
Postcode: WF17 6HY
Parliamentary constituency: Dewsbury and Batley
Established: 1967
Nearest railway station: Batley — 0.5 km

Sources

wikidata: Q4869320 (CC0)
wikipedia: Batley Variety Club (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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