On this DAY
1796: Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland, died in Dumfries, aged 37, from endocarditis induced by rheumatism.
1809: Famous fatty Daniel Lambert died, weighing out at 52 stone 11lb. He passed away in a ground floor room at the Wagon and Horses Inn at Stamford, Lincolnshire, and a wall and window had to be demolished to get him out.
1868: Harry Relph, English music hall star better known as Little Tich, was born. He was 4ft 6in and had six digits on each hand.
1897: The Tate Gallery in London was officially opened, built on the site of the former Millbank Prison. 1904: The Trans-Siberian railway was finally completed. The 4,607 miles of track took 13 years to lay.
1960: Francis Chichester - later Sir docked in New York in Gypsy Moth II, setting a new record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing.
1962: The Rolling Stones made their first appearance, at the Marquee club in London.
1984: The man who popularised jogging, James Fixx, had a heart attack and died while out running in Vermont. He was 52.
2011: America’s space shuttle programme passed into history with the words “wheels stop” crackling over the cockpit radio for the last time. In an end to the 30-year-old programme, Atlantis and its four astronauts glided to a landing after one last visit to the International Space Station, completing the 135th and final shuttle flight.
FROM the Palais de Dance through to Creation and more, we’ve enjoyed plenty of nights out in Leicester venues that have been lost to time.
We all fondly recall the sticky floors, sweaty walls and dubious drinks of those nights out. But while the names of the venues - like Flaming Colossus, Creation, Legends, Brannigans and many, many more - live on, sadly, most have long called last orders.
We took on a bar crawl through our archives to find some of the city’s now-vanished nightclubs, including...
1: Club fashions on show at Flaming Colossus in 2000
2: Pc Nick Holley and Pc David Piguillem with lollipops to be given out to nightclubbers as they left clubs in Church Gate, Leicester, in 2001. The hope was that revellers would be less inclined to shout or cause a disturbance. Did you take up the police on their offer?
3: Students in the bar area of Creation, in Church Gate, 2001