Exhibition will pay tribute to legendary Mr Smith’s club

AN exhibition is to be held at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery in response the community reaction following the disastrous fire which destroyed Mr Smith’s Club.
“Goodbye Mr Smiths” will open on Saturday, November 14 and run until February 20. Admission will be free.
The club at Bridge Foot, Warrington, was demolished after fire wrecked the building in April this year.
Afterwards it became clear that despite the club’s chequered past, many local people had fond memories of it.
The exhibition will follow the building’s story from the iconic Art Deco Ritz Cinema, which opened in 1937, on through its subsequent life as the ABC Cinema and to its heyday as Mr Smith’s nightclub and its sudden dramatic destruction.
Mr Smith’s became well-known nationally through the late-1980s and early-1990s as a regular venue for the ITV dance music show “The Hitman and Her”, hosted by Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan.
A collection of photographs, objects and memories, including oral interviews with well-known local characters such as Stan the Man and “Hitman and Her” dancer Wiggy, pay a nostalgic tribute to a well-loved local landmark.