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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Lifestyle
Lee Grimsditch

'It was absolutely heaving': Greater Manchester town was the 'place to be' in the 90s

Have your shoes ever stuck to a nightclub carpet while you drank Mad Dog 20/20 paid for with a £20 note that lasted you the entire weekend?

If so, there's a chance you spent your clubbing years in Oldham in the 1990s. Following the Manchester Evening News' story on lost nightclub Henry Afrikas, people have been reminiscing about the incredible nights out they used to have in Oldham.

Henry Afrikas was a cabaret-style nightclub based on Clegg Street in the 1980s and '90s. A former staff member, Jamie Harrison, remembers how the club scene in Oldham in the 1990s was "booming", with many popular nightclubs filled to capacity every weekend.

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