For years, Liverpool nightspot the Wooky Hollow club was a household name in the city, attracting a host clubbers and big names.
Beginning its life as The Belmont Road Picture House in 1914, the club, on Belmont Road, Anfield, originally seated nearly 800 people and boasted a façade with a Tudor-style feature. Later leased to to the Associated British Cinemas (ABC) chain, the site was then taken over by an independent operator before reopening as the Lido Cinema from 1938 until the late 1950s.
In the sixties, a new façade was added and it re-opened the Wookey Hollow, a theatre and cabaret club which saw a number of live acts perform to members. It 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.
