The CAROLINE LOUNGE in Bolton was nicknamed The Boneyard Club and this name stuck but don’t ask me why. Although it was not a cellar dive, you reached it by a set of stairs going up and over a musical instruments store, it was one of THE places to go to.
The Boneyard was very popular especially on Sunday afternoons following an All Nighter at The Manchester Twisted Wheel. Not sure who the DJ was but he played some of the best soul around.
Presumably the CAROLINE LOUNGE must have been named after the pirate Radio ship Radio Caroline.
Now Infamously both Jimmy Savile (dead) and ‘UGLY Ray’ Terret (Jailed for 25 years where he died) both DJ’d at this club. There was a time in Greater Manchester when both these predators had a more or less free range of vulnerable young people due to their fame and universal presence in the club scene in Manchester.