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NORWICH BYSTANDERS SOCIETY

Last updated: 12-12-2022
NORWICH BYSTANDERS SOCIETY

Basic Information

Area:
  • Norwich, Norfolk, Uk
Category:
Ex Venues
Opened/Closed:
1959 - 1995
Address:
5 THORPE ROAD

In 1959 a group of young people who frequented the same Norwich pubs decided to turn themselves into a non-political, non-commercial, non-sectarian Society. It went on to provide a full range of events and activities; social, sporting, theatrical, musical. The Bystanders Society enabled its members to take control of their own leisure.

The Society organised an ambitious programme of events, some of them genuinely original and influential. Between 1968 and 1995 it had permanent headquarters at 5 Thorpe Road which gave it a great deal of freedom to try out ideas that would have been inconceivable to the oxymoronic 'leisure industry'.

Socially the Society is by no means defunct and members still organise events on an ad-hoc basis.

[Source www.byssoc.co.uk]

 

Regular Jazz/Folk gigs were started in the Cellar of the club in the late sixties.

 

Bystanders SOCIETY                                            

A non-political society that, before having its own premises at 5 Thorpe Rd, Nch, hosted jazz and folk gigs, firstly at the Roxley Hall, Thorpe, Nch and then at The Gladstone Club, St Giles, Nch, as early as 1964. The society formed in 1959, but we could find no musical events linked to them earlier than 1964. An article on promoter Howard Platt  - see Howard Platt, states that he was a founder member, although we could find nothing to corroborate this.

 

Main Venues:

The Gladstone Club, St Giles, Nch 65

The Bystanders Jazz Club 68-69

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