Sheffield residents fear Shiregreen club that featured in original film will be demolished

As anticipation builds for the release of a new eight-part Full Monty series, hundreds of Sheffield residents are hoping that renewed interest in the stories of the group of steel workers turned strippers will help prevent the demolition of the working men’s club where the original film was made.

In the 1997 Bafta winner, made and set in post-industrial Sheffield, characters Gaz, Dave, Gerald and Lomper choreographed a striptease act to earn some cash after losing their jobs at the local steelworks.

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