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Catacombs
The Catacombs: In 1967, the british population watched black and white television and was sent to bed at 11pm with the queen’s national anthem. They worked no more than 3 miles from there home and either walked to work or arrived there on their push bikes. They spoke with a local accent and the dress fashion was what the local shop's was supplying. The radio station's was controlled by old victorian institutions and a person that was a company representative was generally the only person that was going aboard on an airplane.
The maximum amount of money that they could take out of the country was 250 pounds. So for a group of people to set up a soul club in temple street, wolverhampton playing the rarest american soul music in the world was totally unthinkable “yet it happened”
I was 9 years old then, and across the road from the catacombs (an outbuilding that was once part of the old church infrastructure) stood the rolladrome – little did I know that history was being made, as I was moving and growing up between the 2 buildings.
Many years later this fast up tempo dance soul music was named northern soul and in 1974 the catacombs was closed down. People after people have either wrote articles or books about there experiences and memories of the catacombs, yet I like to keep this story simple – if you missed it - "then you really did miss it", yet if you was part of that experience then those precious happy joyous memories will carry you through to the rest of your days.
Such is the importance of the catacombs (being one of the birth places of soul music in Great Britain) – brother horden has sponsored a special plaque that was placed on the location of the original building for the entire world to visit and see (Molineux House).
If you ever go to wolverhampton, then take a journey down temple street – you will be walking down a road that once played the rarest soul music in the world."keeping the faith"
brother horden
catacombs
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