Inside the Phoenix Club: How the iconic venue looks now

St Gregory's Social Club, in Farnworth, served as the location of Peter Kay's calamitous Phoenix Club in Phoenix Nights, but has since become a function room and sports bar.

Current owner Paul Riley bought St Gregory's around seven years ago and has spent the intervening years renovating the three-room venue, which is commonly used for birthdays, weddings, christenings and other parties.

Mr Riley has also recently installed a new children's play area at the side of the Church Street venue, with several slides fronting on to an outdoor seated area.

"It's been a success without a doubt," he said.

"It's providing a different facility now too with the children's play area which we've just opened.

"The club is now a community hub. We've got sports teams, both darts teams and snooker teams.

"It also gets used by the council sometimes for meetings and we have regular groups that meet here."

"We're pretty well booked up in advance for a lot of events and we've got a great team here working in the club and behind the bar."

The building's three rooms include an area for darts and pool, a large seated area for meetings and functions and another room with a stage and a dance floor.

Some of the drinks available also pay tribute to the club's showbiz past, with gins and beers bearing the phoenix name available behind the bar.

Phoenix Nights ran on Channel 4 between 2001 and 2002, with writers Peter Kay, Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice penning 12 episodes of the show over two seasons.

Mr Kay starred in the show, playing unfortunate club-owner Brian Potter, fire marshal Keith Lard and doorman Max, alongside fellow Boltonian Paddy McGuinness.

Mr Spikey also appeared as compere Jerry St. Clair and Mr Fitzmaurice as hapless entertainer and DJ Ray Von.

Other stars include comedian Justin Moorhouse, who played Young Kenny and Archie Kelly who played Kenny Senior.

Anyone interested in booking a function at St Gregory's should call Stacey on 07866 314848.