History Of The Building/Site

In its time this site has been used for many different forms of entertainment, the site first started out as a row of terreced houses with some small shops, which were demolished to make way for the current building (Date Unknown). The building was first used as a dance hall for several years and then was purchased by the Apollo Group and converted into a 3 screen cinema, situated on the 1st and 2nd floors, with the ground floor turned into a large bingo hall.

This was a very popular venue for all ages, young and old, for many further years, but on the opening of the new Pheonix Leisure Park in September 2005, the cinema/bingo hall finally closed its doors to the public. The building then lay unused for quite a few months before finally being purchased and recieved many alterations for which it then reopened as a Live Music venue, now widely known as the M Club.

Current Use Of The Building

The building has been used as a Live Music venue for several years featuring many well known artists/bands including a lot of upcoming new artists/bands from around the region. It attracted many people from all over, with events to entertain people from teenagers to the elderly. Unfortunatly the cinema remained disused but screen 1 on the first floor was striped and converted into a recording studio. Also one of the local community radio stations "CatFM" began its life within the building but has since now moved to more modern larger premises in Nantwich.

As of April 2010 the M Club finally closed it doors to the public in preparation for demolition of entire area to make way for a new supermarket, multi-story car park and landscaping of the remaining surrounding area later in the year.

Unexplainable Events

Many stories have been told of odd happens taking place on all floors within the building, some of which could not be explained.

Heavy footsteps, lights found on, voices heard calling peoples names, things vanishing and then reappearing elsewhere in the buildings days later, items being thrown from what seemed like nowhere, feeling of been followed or watched plus many other unexplainable phenomena.

Some of these events were also experianced by the team while on loaction.