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ADDRESS- |
The Blundell Arms
34 Upper Aughton Road,
Birkdale,
Southport,
PR8 5ND. |
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PROMOTER- |
Clive Pownceby |
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YOU CAN'T MISS IT- |
The pub is 5 minutes walk from Birkdale
Station, on the corner of Upper Aughton
and Everton Roads a couple of miles from
Southport town centre. |
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FIRE LIMIT- |
150 |
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BEERS- |
Tetley's range, Carlsberg, Guinness plus good house wines |
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HISTORY- |
A rambling Victorian pub, named after major local
landowners once standing alone amongst sandhills
but now part of a downtown suburb, and famous 90
years ago for kennelling hunting hounds at rear! |
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DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS- |
The Bothy moved here in Spring 1965
after its initial venue proved
inadequate to accommodate the folk-boom
year's number of punters. Therefore the
Bothy moved after only six weeks in its
original venue.
The Club has a suite of rooms, once
billiard-tabled in high-ceilinged,
plaster-corniced splendour with superb
acoustics. |
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WHO'S PLAYED THERE- |
Virtually a who's who of folk and related musics
- traditional singers such as Jeannie Robertson,
Davy Stewart, US singer/songwriters Carolyn Hester
Chris Smither and UK faves like Martin Carthy and
Kate Rusby. Its been a guest a fortnight now for
34 years! |
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LEGEND- |
AOR stars such as Mary Black and Barbara Dickson were on the
Bothy's stage long before international fame beckoned and the
folk circuit was their bread and butter. "More bread than
butter" says Clive. "We last paid Barbara £20 in March 1974 and
she's welcome to come back any time - a chillingly good folk
singer when she chooses to be". The often-told story about the
club rejecting Paul Simon's audition as 'too arty , over-priced
and over rated' is Clive sighs, "a little apocryphal but not
without its grains of truth". |
