Interior of The Masquerade Club on Clayton Square, as remembered by Chris Bernard and Mark Lees today. Newspaper clipping of The Masquerade Club courtesy of John Harrison.


Most of Clayton Square was demolished by the end of the 1980s to make way for the current Clayton Square Shopping district. Today, we begin to revisit this iconic space using the memories of both Chris Bernard and Mark Lees. Each of them shared with me a layout sketch of the bar, brought to life through their vivid descriptions - from the characters they would meet, to the smell of the room and the texture of the sticky carpets - this model stands as a starting point to develop further our understanding of this space, so that hopefully we can once see it again.
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