'Like the last days of the Roman Empire': What it was like to party at the Kitchen, Hulme's notorious after-hours acid house club

If you liked to stay out late in 1980s Manchester, you didn't have that many options.

Under the watchful eye of 'God's Cop' - police chief James Anderton - the city's nightclubs were operating under a strict 2am curfew.

But a couple of miles to the south of the city centre, among the vast, lawless, concrete blocks of Hulme Crescents, an infamous after-hours club was following its own rules.