Les,
In the days I was living in Chorlton (Keppel Road), Lloyd's was a fairly rough house, a warren of small rooms, I seem to remember.
We recorded a story from Irish Travellers about the sessions that used to go on there.
Felix Doran - one of the most famous of the Irish pipers, second only to his brother Johnny, used to go there every Sunday morning to play. One morning there was a crowd listening to him playing (solo) when a local man, slightly drunk, staggered in, sat down at the old out-of-tune upright piano in the corner and began (sort of) to accompany him. One of the listeners strode over and slammed the piano lid down on his hands, breaking several of his fingers - a somewhat harsh form of music criticism or what!
Jim Carroll