A lost Liverpool nightclub that was a household name in the city for years was loved for its live acts, atmosphere, serving chicken in a basket and more.
The Liverpool ECHO recently took a look back at nightspot the Wooky Hollow club, which started its life as The Belmont Road Picture House in 1914. Located on Belmont Road, Anfield, the site was leased to the Associated British Cinemas (ABC) chain, before being taken over by an independent operator and reopening as the Lido Cinema from 1938 until the late 1950s.
In the sixties, the Wooky Hollow theatre and cabaret club was one of several clubs, along with Falcon's Crest in Formby and Pickwicks on Fraser Street near London Road, owned by the late body-building champion and former Knowsley councillor Terry Phillips and partner Frank Sharrock. In 1968, a Liverpool ECHO advertisement described the new Wooky Hollow club as "the finest cabaret on Merseyside."
