North Manchester building has been a hotel, pub, restaurant and burlesque bar hosting 'fetish and kink nights' in its time
A now abandoned North Manchester building was once home to a bizarre club adorned with upturned crucifixes and decapitated heads.
The first official Hellfire Club was founded in London in 1718, by the first Duke of Wharton and a handful of high-society friends, with other groups using the name 'Hellfire Club' set up throughout the 18th century. The Duke's club was set up more as a satirical joke to shock society, rather than as a serious affront to religion or morality.
With ghoulish figures and decapitated heads hanging from the windows, customers ordered cocktails such as Dead Man Walking, which they happily slurped from blood-smattered goblets. The venue also boasted Manchester's deepest cellar, branded the 'dungeon', where bodies were believed to have been buried in the past.
In 2010, the club's owner David Butler, told the M.E.N. that during the club's renovation, a cigarette packet dated 1886 was discovered under the floorboards. He added: "We've had various paranormal teams here and they all come up with pretty much the same impression of a young girl and an older man that haunts the place."
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