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Meanwhile, up nine stone steps and through a large imposing door an alternative world is starting to emerge in an old converted Georgian terraced townhouse. Over the next decade The Silhouette would provide a colourful late-night escape from the grim reality of daily life which carried on outside.

He said:.

More than 30 faces from the lost Silhouette Club - Hull's first gay nightclub

The music was very club, the air was filled with hairspray, aftershave, alcohol and smoke and the clientele were generally bright-eyed, jolly and friendly, they all seemed to pub. In its new guise, the only physical difference appeared to be the arrival of a pool table to replace the poker table.

The intimacy stirs more memories for Dave Whatt. The hull one had a bar with a very good jukebox, a hatch in the wall where you could buy after-midnight snacks mainly trays of chips with tomato ketchup as I recalla room with heavily-patterned flock wallpaper, a sticky worn carpet, low tables, comfortable chairs and a very large TV which was always set with colour control on full and the volume at maximum.

There was also a smaller back room with just enough space for a medium-sized pool table. There were hardly any fights, although there gay usually plenty of camp and cutting insults flying around the place. What style it had. Twice-yearly drag shows only added to its reputation. A new book by author Andy Roe — a Silhouette regular back in the day — aims to capture those heady days.

The book features many submitted tales about the place in response to an appeal for memories on social media last year. He added:. Times change and so did the Sil when it moved from Spring Bank to nearby Park Street inturning into more of a full-on indie dance venue. Even so, Andy believes the original Sil still lives on in the hearts of all those who ventured up those famous stone steps.

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