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Offline Dave Smith

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Re: Nightclub in Canterbury Street Gillingham
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2020, 04:12:04 PM »
Definitely the Pavilion in the 40's. My sister Betty, was going out with a member of the resident band & often sang for them in 1944/45. Before WW2, I have a feeling that it belonged to the Co-Op?- unless that was close by in Canterbury Street? We went to an exhibition there, probably 1938, & I well remember there was a Co-Op machine pressing out bars of soap from a continuous length of material. In those days, the Co-op had many of their own factories producing goods.   

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Re: Nightclub in Canterbury Street Gillingham
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2019, 12:14:35 PM »
  Despite all the name changes I still refer to it as the Pav some good times there in the 60s

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Re: Nightclub in Canterbury Street Gillingham
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2019, 03:51:12 PM »
If I remember rightly , it was called the Pavilion from it's start in 1931  ( old forum maybe ) then as DTT said the more recent names.

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Re: Nightclub in Canterbury Street Gillingham
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2019, 10:42:28 PM »
I think in (roughly) this order:
Victor Silvesters Dance Hall
unknown
Joannas
Ritzy
Catch 22
The Zone
Bliss
Moo Moos

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Re: Nightclub in Canterbury Street Gillingham
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2019, 08:25:00 PM »
I first remembered it as Joannas, but I wasn't old enough to get in. It's also been called "The Zone" and "Preach Clubrooms" before it was "Moo Moo's". There were other names too, but I can't remember what they were.
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Re: Nightclub in Canterbury Street Gillingham
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2019, 06:58:42 PM »
The Pavilion was for ballroom dancing, until the late 1950`s -- when Rock & Roll came in.
The name of Brian Jenner may have been the resident band leader, either at the  Pav `
or at the Parochial Hall at Gillingham Green. --- Both venue`s -- we visited then.



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Re: Nightclub in Canterbury Street Gillingham
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2019, 10:53:30 AM »
I first knew it as The Pav (pavillion) in the early 60's. Alan Ryder Band was resident.Before that I think it had been a dance hall for many years.

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Nightclub in Canterbury Street Gillingham
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2019, 10:03:09 AM »