Gardens · Yorkshire & the Humber
Batley Variety Club
Batley Variety Club — a garden in england-yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Betty Longbottom — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
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,…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 53.7065, -1.6266
- Address
- 260 Bradford Road, Batley, West Yorkshire
- Established
- 1967
Sources
- wikidata: Q4869320 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Batley Variety Club (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Batley Variety Club?
- Batley Variety Club is in Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
- When was Batley Variety Club built?
- Built or established in 1967.
- Who owns Batley Variety Club?
- Batley Variety Club is owned by | current_tenants =.