The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #86346 Message #1661153
Posted By: GUEST,Nicholas Waller, Topic Webo
03-Feb-06 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: The Topic FC, Bradford:New Venue in 2006
Subject: RE: The Topic FC, Bradford:New Venue in 2006
Hallo.
I just thought I'd step in and contribute. First time on this forum, but I do the Topic's website, which has just been updated with some new pages. There's now a FAQ and also a Venue page, with a bio and some photos of the Cock & Bottle, the new venue.
The place is worth its own folk song, what with a fatal stabbing, an exorcism, a period of being run by Christians followed by three years of abandonment and then a glorious rebirth - and that's only the last ten years. It's one of Bradford's oldest pubs, built 1820 on or near the site of a previous inn, and is one of 250 pubs in Britain CAMRA classed as being of special historic interest. Now it belongs to local small brewer William Greenwood (it's their only pub) who aim to start brewing on the premises again.
If it gets too popular the club room might get a tad crowded - there were 50 or so in last night (for Tom Napper Tom Bliss) and that was pretty full (with the tables and chairs and everything). There's no bar in the room but it is only about 20 feet away, and there are 13 real ales.
The move has gone very well and audience figures, as far as one can judge, are possibly 50% up on what they would have been at the old venue. Still, there have only been 4 club nights so far... maybe the novelty will wear off...