History
In the late 1970s the original 'Wolston Manor House' was converted from a private house into a high class private members club by Sean Connery and 1966 World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore. One night in the early 80s a group of local businessmen from east London attempted to get into a local club in Walthamstow, unfortunately for the owner of this club his doormen decided not to let them in. One of these men was a local builder called Peter Pomfret, and after being refused entry decided to purchase the Wolston Manor House club, which by now was suffering from a lack of customers. The club was swiftly closed down and turned into a night club, with much less strict membership criteria, and soon attracted huge numbers of local customers, but was still restricted to over-25s. It soon became overwhelmed with its own success, and Pomfret decided to build the Cassion Club extension, and then in the mid-90s added 'The Jungle', which after a few years was refurbished as 'Atlantis'. The complex of clubs had a capacity of over 3,000 people, which was regularly met. The Walthamstow club closed down due to lack of customers in the early 1980s.
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