To ask you to help me remember…(if you lived in Cambridge in the 90’s)

[WhyMeWhyNot21]

HELP!!!!

I’ve been Googling for hours with no luck and it’s slowly driving me round the bend!!

In the mid/late 90’s I used to go to a club/music venue with my mates, we’d watch local bands play. It was around Napier street/Cobblers yard and it was possibly the strip club - Talk of the town at some point before then.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

My husband has mentioned a rave at a place called warning. He also used to shop at cult clothing!

Dh lived in Cambridge in the 90s - he has no idea

I think I know where you mean - was it just outside the grafton by the post office in that little yard? Turned into a Chinese restaurant for a while then into a pub and now closed? Can’t remember the name for the life of me.

Warning was at The Junction! I spent lots of my youth there!
It’s so annoying…I still live in Cambridge and feel I should know this!!!!
I think a pub crawl is in order tomorrow, it may help to refresh my memory!!

I’ve just tracked down a couple of my old mates from that time…hoping they remember or I’ll never sleep tonight!!!

I am wondering if we all knew each other in the 90s 😁

I shopped at Alternative Clothing. And went to the Cambridge Arms before it became the Hum. Cult Clothing was SO loud! I miss the man who played the saw in Lion Yard.

Yeah the Boat Race was on East Road. Oasis played there in 1994.

The place now called The Tea House on Google maps?

@irresistibleoverwhelm

That was the Ancient Druids. It’s further down than that…towards Newmarket Rd

THE CELLAR BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hallelujah!!!!

My mate messaged back straight away! She couldn’t believe I’d forgotten such an upmarket venue!

I’ll sleep easy tonight now!! Thanks everyone!!

Warning was a drum and base night at the Junction.

This brings back so many memories, of student nights at Chicago, and of a really bad Valentines night at Fifth Avenue

Not the Ancient Druids - that was further down on Fitzroy St. I mean the place between Napier St and Wellington St - now called The Tea House but only recently. It was a pub and club a few years ago when I lived off Newmarket Rd.

Fifth Avenue….or Filth as we called it! Another classy venue

Oh The Cellar Bar, that was there until about 10 years ago I think.

There was one called Talk of The Town (I think) on Napier Street but that closed in late 2000's I think?

When I was in Cambridge in the 90s I adored Cult Clothing! I remember vowing to (now) DH that ‘when we grew up and had money’ I would buy all my clothes from there (and the vintage market in the Guildhall). Of course, once we ‘grew up’ we discovered there were other things we had to spend money on.
I still have a knitted coat from there though, that makes an appearance every few winters.
Can’t think of the club though.

I worked there from 2013 when it was called The Snug and people used to come in and tell us all the time the big bands that played there!

Talk of the town was a strip club…that was before my time though! (DH has just confirmed it only cost £1 to get in!)

Oh the Cellar Bar. Yes the one I was thinking of was called The Box I think but very close by.

Man on the Moon?

Hi @WhyMeWhyNot21
I know exactly where you mean.
It was in or just outside Cobble's Yard. It wasn't a pub, it was below ground.

For a short time it was a sort of an upmarket nightclub/disco.
I've been trying to remember what it was called for years I think it changed name quite regularly.

Does anyone remember the club downstairs in the Railway Inn on the corner of station road and St Andrews Street (think those are the names?) Think it was called City Limits.

Also Route 66 next to the Corn Exchange?

And the most legendary of all, Sultans.

I want 90’s Cambridge back….

I want to walk out of CRC (Newmarket Rd) in my platform boots, across to the Grafton and sit upstairs at the chippy and share chips with my mates whilst chain smoking Silk Cut. I want to go to Dot Cotton at the Junction and sit at The Fort st George in the sunshine…stumble back to Drummer Street and get the bus home. Meh…those were the days!!

I am still devastated that Chilli's is no more.

@WhyMeWhyNot21

I want 90’s Cambridge back….

I want to walk out of CRC (Newmarket Rd) in my platform boots, across to the Grafton and sit upstairs at the chippy and share chips with my mates whilst chain smoking Silk Cut. I want to go to Dot Cotton at the Junction and sit at The Fort st George in the sunshine…stumble back to Drummer Street and get the bus home. Meh…those were the days!!

where do you live in Cambridge now? I miss it!

The Cellar Bar !!!!!
Yes!!
Now to solve my other big Cambridge mystery.
A Blues that ran over a car workshop in a back street where the Crown now is
I've never met anyone who ever went to it but I know there were loads of people there whenever I went.
Up a rickety staircase, a couple of quid to get in, another couple for a red stripe, massive sound system, 'smoky' atmosphere.