Your Memories of the Heartbeat

[desy 10]

Do you have any memories of the Heartbeat?.

Mighty Atom, Bob Wooley, Jon Grocock ( had a belter of a bird that was a relation) Where are they now?

[snout 10]

I used to go there to drink halves of double diamond... somebody broke my nose there on my 18th birthday - nice pressie that was.

[desy 10]

I used to go there to drink halves of double diamond... somebody broke my nose there on my 18th birthday - nice pressie that was.

 

Could have been worse you could have supped the Watneys.

[Nigel Womersle 10]

I used to go to the Heartbeat every Sunday night. It was on the top floor of the ice rink in Queens Road, and the first place I had ever seen a disc jockey

[Alan52 10]

Greengrass David Alfred Blakson Pc Rowen Phil And Alf its getting late.

[garthai 10]

I used to go there to drink halves of double diamond... somebody broke my nose there on my 18th birthday - nice pressie that was.

 

was this around 1967 you got your nose broke?

My mother was the manageress of the snack bar (bowling alley) my fatehr was a part time bouncer (Bowling Alley/casino & the heartbeat if trouble occured)

The dress code was shirt & tie, no jeans for the heartbeat.

I worked away from home and used to arrive in Sheffield late of night (train) I used to get in the Heartbeat in wranglers or levis (cause of my father)

I remember breaking someones nose (larking about, rather than aggression)

[smary 14]

I first went to Heartbeat in about 1966/67 - it was a get together for the people where I worked. Got talking to one of the guys who worked in the next office and we have been married 43 years.

[snout 10]

hi gathai

 

It was july 1970. I was just standing there doing nothing and got thumped by somebody who thought my mate was chatting up his girlfriend. Why he didn't thump him instead I'll never know

[garthai 10]

Good it wasn't me (that broke your nose), I got married July 1969 and I only went to the Heartbeat on very rare occaisons after that (with my wife & friends)

I worked away (not working in Sheffield since 1963, not lived in Sheffield since 1985, not lived in the uk since 1995)

I did like the Heartbeat,1968 I was working down south and I used to get a long week end every 6 weeks, my father used to pick me up from the railway station and we usualy go straight to the Heatbeat, him in is working clothes (steeleworker, ) and me in wranglers), we stayed in until it closed then he'd drop me off at home (usualy with a girlfriend) and he'd go back to work.

Those were the day's (I think Mary Hopkins said that)

[peter bush 10]

I still have an invitation for the Heartbeat dated Monday-3rd May 1971 which was around my 21st birthday. Before that I used to work in the bowling alley (67-68) as a pinspotter, mainly at weekends. I remember the fella on the door who was huge and could be intimidating.