The Locarno. Now there’s a Birmingham memory. Some would say it was the best nightclub ever. Who knows.
Here’s a couple chatting away in a club and a woman with a hand that looks like chicken heads around the fingertips.
About A3 in size on cardboard. One off.
History. The Locarno night clubs were part of the Mecca Leisure Group before it was sold out to the Rank Organisation. There were clubs in several English towns.
They were ballrooms and dancehalls in the 1960s and 1970s and transitioned into nightclubs after that. Pioneering at the time.
The Rank Organisation took over the Mecca Leisure Group in 1990. Michael Guthrie was the Chief Executive at the time and he came from Bolton originally. Micheal Guthrie then had a new venture called Pavillion.