Venues Long Gone

A blast from the past with Dad's small collection of club and restaurant cards from Wiltshire, London, and Malta.

My favourite is definitely the Bamboo Night Club, check out that phone number, evocative or what!

Collage of business cards from the early 1970s. Shah-Noor Restaurant (London); Bamboo Night Club (Malta); The Carribbean (Malta); Wilts Curry Centre (Devizes); Charlton Cat Inn (nr Pewsey).

I've tried to find each of these places and:

Shah-Noor Restaurant: 54 Rochester Row, London.
It's searches up as the Indian Diner, but I suspect it's been closed since late 2020.

Bamboo Night Club: 114 Stuart Street, Malta.
Now apartments, and it looks fairly new as well so not even the building has survived.

The Carribbean: Birżebbuġa, Malta.
Bugger me, there's still one going. Who knows if it's the same one as there's no address on Dad's card.

Wilts Curry Centre: Sidmouth Street, Devices.
No longer a curry house, but there is one, Dedar, next door. Unfortunately they went bust in 1977. Also the restaurant was actually called trading under the name Taj Mahal, I have no idea how Dad got a card with their actual business name.

[source: London Gazette: 'Wilts Curry Centre' search]

The Charlton Cat Inn: nr Pewsey.
Still going as tea rooms and restaurant, re-opened in 2017.
The village inn is the Charlton Cat, "a solitary little inn at the foot of the downs".This establishment was originally called the Red Lion, later the Poores Arms after Edward Poore, lord of the nearby manor of Rushall in the eighteenth century, but the villagers had long known it as The Cat, from the ill-painted lion of the original sign. This name was formally adopted in 1921.

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