Decades ago, New Brighton was home to many loved nightclubs, from The Chelsea Reach and The Golden Guinea to The Grand. First built in the 1850s, New Brighton's Grand Hotel was revamped in the 20th century and given a glitzy reopening by film icon Mae West.
Paul told the ECHO: "We redecorated, it was pretty run down and on its last legs when I bought it. It very much had an art deco feel to it. "At The Chelsea in the early days we were open seven nights a week - at The Grand we would open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday and it did well. It was never as successful or as crowded, as busy or as iconic as the Chelsea reach - but it held its own."
"For me, it was always about being able to create a party atmosphere so that people could come and get away from the humdrum 9-5 life that most people had to live and to enjoy themselves." Paul later acquired what was the Penny Farthing club and transformed it first into an Italian restaurant called The Palm House, before it reopened as a bar called Coasters.
At the time, Cllr Bill Duffy said more should have been done to protect the hotel. He said: "When it was in its prime all the great and the good used to visit it.
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