Archive

The aim of Queue Up And Dance is to celebrate the importance of Quadrant Park during its later years, between 1990 and 91.

Throughout 2024 – 2025, we invited those who went to Quadrant Park in its heyday, and young people living in Bootle today, to collaboratively develop an archive.

We met with people local to Bootle and those who travelled to the Quad from all over the country, receiving photographs, flyers, posters and other ephemera. We interviewed those who contributed to the archive, chronicling what was so important about Quadrant Park and the influence it had on the people who went.

Kindly Donated by Tony Healey

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Quadrant Park, we collaborated with Quadrant Park Reunions to bring the party Back to Bootle, hosting an exhibition at Salt & Tar alongside the reunion party in Bootle for the first time since the venue closed.

Bringing together displays of archival material and a timeline of how the style, graphic design and music developed in Quadrant Park’s short lifespan, visitors were invited to find themselves in the crowd in the photographs, learn about this explosive moment in the development of club culture and celebrate Quadrant Park together.

Not an attempt to create an official or complete story of Quadrant Park, as the club was different things to different people, it captures this brief and vital cultural moment through the myriad memories of those who went. This lasting archive of material will be available for future generations via Sefton Libraries.

Click below to see the collection of everything we gathered over the past year!

Do you have a Quad story to tell? Or a flyer in a drawer somewhere? We’d love to hear from you. This is a living archive that will continue to grow.  If you’ve got memorabilia or photographs to share, please email joe.goff@sefton.gov.uk.