Generations of Cumbrians have fond memories of Legends and the Twisted Wheel.

This West Walls club was a favourite from the 1970s to the 2000s.

It closed nearly 10 years ago but is about to have a new life, as shops and flats.

The building belongs to Carlisle Glass which recently began converting the upper floor into three shop units.

“We’re hoping they’ll be ready for businesses to move into by the end of the year,” says director John Pattison.

“They could be suitable for a hairdresser, a nail bar, a boutique, that kind of thing. It could be one big unit, or one business in two units and another in the third, or three separate units.”

The bottom two floors will be converted into 15 one- and two-bedroom flats.

The Twisted Wheel was famously dark and dingy.

The conversion will include replacing the windowless wall on the building’s west side to let in light.

John says: “The apartments will probably be ready by the middle of next year, probably for rent rather than to buy.

“It’s a big project. I’m a bit gutted that the club closed. It was a brilliant club. But you can’t really run it on two nights a week.”

John’s business has owned the building since the 1980s. He regarded Wednesday nights – student nights – as the best of the week.

“If you had stock that wasn’t shifting, student night was the time to sell it for £1. Students would drink anything. We had the ‘pun fridge’ – it was spelt ‘pun’!

“Students had a bad time in Carlisle. If they had a little bit of an accent or dressed a bit differently they used to get a bit of hassle. Not here. You’d have 1,500 students over the three floors.

“A lot of them had Thursday as a reading day. They used to go on the lash on Wednesday night and lie in bed on Thursday.”