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Up at the County Showground.This will seem like a daft question but I wasnt born and bred in the town, where specifically was Bingley Hall?
It was, and presumably still is, the big shed at the County Showground - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=stafford uk&hl=en&ll=52.824733,-2.06533&spn=0.001357,0.002411&hnear=Stafford, United Kingdom&gl=uk&t=h&z=19 - site of many a high-profile pop/rock concert in the 70s/80s...This will seem like a daft question but I wasnt born and bred in the town, where specifically was Bingley Hall?
It wasn't the best of venues - the acoustics hardly justified the use of the word - other venues became available and the era of giant concerts faded a bit at the same time.So what happened then? Stafford seemed to be a major stop off point for bands in the 70's and then nothing.
It was, and presumably still is, the big shed at the County Showground - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=stafford uk&hl=en&ll=52.824733,-2.06533&spn=0.001357,0.002411&hnear=Stafford, United Kingdom&gl=uk&t=h&z=19 - site of many a high-profile pop/rock concert in the 70s/80s...
Was at that Yes gig, a mate turned up at home about two hours prior with a spare ticket.It was, and presumably still is, the big shed at the County Showground - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=stafford uk&hl=en&ll=52.824733,-2.06533&spn=0.001357,0.002411&hnear=Stafford, United Kingdom&gl=uk&t=h&z=19 - site of many a high-profile pop/rock concert in the 70s/80s...
Maybe the sign is still there?
--I was there..
Often a point of confusion with the other Bingley Hall down Brum way. Stafford's was sometimes called New Bingley Hall in an effort to differentiate the two - but this just confused things even more as the 'New' one was the Birmingham one, really, I believe...
http://www.thenewbingleyhall.co.uk/site/index.html
I have only ever seen one live concert and that was as a 5 year old somewhere in Hanley, to see Slim WhitmanBlack Sabbath, Rainbow, Whitesnake, Kiss, Rush, The Police. Some bands I've seen at Bingley Hall. It was a great concert venue.
Or the Sandonia..?Should I win the lottery I will buy a place in Stafford and turn it into the best music venue and have decent live bands playing! Suggestions open for venue, I’m thinking that place falling down on Marston rd or that place on eastgate street next to the bike shop that’s empty!
I think that may be part of the planned M&S development.Or the old Tesco, and with a multi-storey car-park attached..?