Just spotted this thread and can confirm all that's been clarifying over its course. Def. The Victoria in St. Johns Lane, and the Mitre it was, on the top floor. Yeh, Customs House too and the other Victoria nicknamed Oily Joes. The Cross Keys too round the back of the Stadium was a late-'70s Thursday club and John Howson was once involved in another - The Vines on Lime Street. btw Godfrey Boardman still does the door for us at Southport's Bothy. Wouldn't be the same without him!