Welcome to THE GOLDEN GARTER Website
2019
Reunion
GOLDEN GARTER
51st. Anniversary
STAFF REUNION
Monday 7th. October 2019
2.30pm - 5.30pm
Wythenshawe Cricket & Sports Club
78 Longley Lane, Wythenshawe, Manchester M22 4JF
2018
Reunion
GOLDEN GARTER
50th. Anniversary
STAFF REUNION
Sunday 7th. October 2018
10.30 a.m.
Blue Plaque Photobomb
Gala Bingo
Rowlandsway, Woodhouse Park, Wythenshawe, Manchester M22 5RG
12 noon-6pm
Afternoon of Celebration
Wythenshawe Cricket & Sports Club
78 Longley Lane, Wythenshawe, Manchester M22 4JF
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Do You Want To Attend This Function?
We're NOT issuing tickets. Instead, we're having a GUEST LIST on the door. To get on the guest list you need to
Email GoldenGarter@LIVE.com
and you'll get confirmation and updates as they happen
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2017
Reunion
GOLDEN GARTER
49th. Anniversary
STAFF REUNION
Saturday 7th. October 2017
2.30 p.m.
The Cornishman, Cnr. Portway & Cornishway, Wythenshawe, Manchester M22 0JX
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2016 Reunion
GOLDEN GARTER 2016 REUNION
The 2016 reunion took place with a PowerPoint Presentation of "The Golden Garter Story: A Trip Down Memory Lane" on Friday 30th. September 2016 @ 1.30 pm at the Woodhouse Park Lifestyle Centre, Portway, Wythenshawe, M22 1QW followed by a cabaret performance by SHEP'S BANJO BOYS.
It was a wonderful opportunity for ex-Garter colleagues to meet up who worked at the club from 1968 - 1982.
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Events
2017 REUNIOn
This YouTube Video was filmed by Allan Birkin on Saturday 7 October 2017 at The Cornishman Pub - where many ex-staff and turns met up to celebrate the 49th. Anniversary of the opening of the Golden Garter Show Bar Theatre Restaurant
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SING-ALONG-A-GOLDEN-GARTER is a sing-along quiz that tests your ability to name Britain's Top Variety Entertainers from the 60’s and 70’s who appeared at Wythenshawe's famous cabaret venue, from their photos on the BIG screen, when you're not joining in with the lyrics from the songs that made the stars famous.
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From 1969, JOHN ORCHARD worked with more than 100 headline acts including Cilla Black, Tommy Cooper, Ken Dodd, Bruce Forsyth, Bob Monkhouse, Roy Orbison, Cliff Richard & Dusty Springfield at Manchester’s sister club to the TALK OF THE TOWN, clocking up more than 1,000 performances at the GOLDEN GARTER as pianist with SHEP’S BANJO BOYS.
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With archive material, backstage stories and revealing gossip from the dressing rooms, John will take you back to the heyday of Manchester's biggest and best Show Bar Theatre Restaurant where it all happened 45 years ago in Rowlandsway, Wythenshawe!
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Contract JOHN via his website www.singalongajohn.com
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golden garter INTERVIEW
Below is a YouTube video interview - where John Orchard talks to Neil Sean about how he got to work at The Golden Garter in 1969