Nightclub sells off pieces of sticky carpet

The Acapulco nightclub in Halifax is selling off pieces of its infamous, garishly designed carpet.

Opened in 1961, the Acapulco and claims to be Britain's oldest nightclub, and this year, it decided to replace its old, sticky and worn carpet. Someone joked that the club could sell off portions of the old carpet to patrons who had fond memories of nights spent there. The owners took this suggestion seriously and, once the word was out, they sold 100 carpet pieces in an afternoon.

Speaking to the Guardian, the owner of the club, Simon Jackson, said:

“It’s gone really, really mental. We thought we would be chucking most of it but we’ve had to pull some bits out of the skip, if I’m honest. It’s going great guns.”

Carpet pieces range from small £5 sections to a framed engraved piece that costs £50. The money raised from the carpet sale is being donated to the Street Angels charity. Jackson expects the sale will raise around £3,000. He believes that the carpet, which is sticky from numerous spilt drinks and other debris, is perhaps the oldest carpet in Britain – older than many of the people buying pieces of it.

When it’s time to replace carpets in Chester, Wrexham and North Wales properties, there will probably be no people willing to purchase pieces of the old carpet. One alternative is to send the carpet to a carpet recycling centre, rather than throwing it into a landfill rubbish site.