The ghosts of Halloweens past...

The other weekend I was assisting a friend in collecting Halloween goods held in storage before the place where the goods being stored was sold. Sadly there were too many boxes and not enough car space and many vintage items ended up being junked. However one flyer that fell out of a box recalled memories of the Halloween parties that Folkestone's newest and best (at the time!) nightclub held in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

I'd completely forgotten that the restaurant next door was called the Café De Paris. The Parisienne nightclub is now called Onyx and by all reports is something akin to a cattle market at weekends now. So here's a little memento to those of a certain age who remember when Folkestone was a little more alive... or should that be...


Sunday 7th August 2011