End of an era…

Was zooming around the BBC News website, as I am wont to do from time to time, when I came across this story.

An iconic floating nightclub based on the river Tyne for 15 years is to be towed away at the weekend.
The Tuxedo Princess ship, with its legendary revolving dance floor, is being tugged from its Gateshead mooring to make way for a £10m office complex.

As a student in Newcastle in the early 90s, I spent many a happy Monday evening on “The Boat”. And while people all too easily label things as “legendary” these days, the revolving dance floor on The Boat was indeed something to behold.
Stand in the wrong place and your prospective (and obviously very classy) female friend for the evening would be slowly rotated away from you – a distressing and confusing experience after a few* cheap pints on the way down there.

So RIP, The Boat.
I’m sure I should have more memories of you than I actually have, which in itself, speaks volumes.

* few (n) – a small number, in this case, probably about 11.

4 thoughts on “End of an era…

  1. Nix » Very similar in that it’s a pub/club based on a moored boat (albeit that The Boat was obviously on the more favoured starboard quay of the river), but on a whole different scale.
    And with a revolving dance floor, obviously.

  2. You mean the floor in the Queen Mary does not rotate? It sure felt like it at times.

    Pamela’s last blog post was: Check out my arms! (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)

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