I started going to my local club "just over the border" at The Boundary in Worksop in the late '70s.

I used to go to many of the South Yorkshire clubs with Mitch, and Tom & Bertha Brown et al assuming we could cadge a lift. The Wheatsheaf at Barnsley, Kiveton Club at The Lord Conyers, Grapes on Trippet Lane Sheffield, Bay Horse at Bentley... All of which have been mentioned. We also used to book many of the names mentioned here at The Boundary in those days. Heady stuff.

Mind you, by reading this thread... after all these ruddy years... somebody has owned up to telling John Bartley to start learning monologues!!! One assumes the statute of limitations was checked first? Oggle goggle oggle goggle......