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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jess Molyneux

Liverpool entrepreneurs who created 'unusual' 1970s nightclubs

Two Liverpool entrepreneurs offered "something new" to the 1970s nightlife scene that was "out of the box" for its time.

Today, it isn't unusual to come across a nightclub, bar or restaurant with an interesting concept. In an age of social media, we love visiting our favourite Liverpool businesses and snapping an 'Instragrammable' moment.

But decades before camera phones and the extravagant and innovative business ideas we know today, two Liverpool businessmen were arguably ahead of their time. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, owners of Compass Catering, George 'Jud' Evans and Colin Peers teamed up to open two floating clubs and a restaurant housed in a former RAF plane.

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