My dad, Jack Ashworth, opened Le Kilt, Bournemouth in about 1963, in partnership with Louis Brown.
My parents also owned The Swiss Restaurant, next door to Le Kilt. Louis had a flat above, in Hampshire Court that he used when he came down from London. Quite a crowd would come down from London at the weekends.
I remember David Shellard who drove a white E-type jag, and was manager for a while. Also Adriano who was more in the early 60's. He came over from Mennagio on Lake Como and went on to open Adriano's night club at The Lansdowne.

My father died when I was 9, in 1966, and Louis invited my mum, my sister and I to spend New Year's at his flat in Curzon Place. I remember him as being kind, funny and overwhelmingly generous. He let us use his chauffeur-driven car with a TV and phone in it... Amazing!
I also went with my mum to the opening of Skindles on the Thames. Quite an eye opener! I was about 18, so it must have been 1978/79?
I will always remember his kindness. My memories of Louis are all good. I do remember my father nearly getting bitten by Louis's police-trained guard dog, which he had to protect himself! They were interesting times!

http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2013/02/swinging-bournemouth/
Swinging Bournemouth - Nick Churchill takes us back fifty years – to the Stones Age - Published in February 2013
‘My favourite venue though was Le Kilt which was also the name of one of the top clubs in London. It was part of the Swiss Restaurant in Bournemouth Square and they’d get four or five hundred of us in there, the dancefloor had once been a squash court. You could get a drink there and kids would spill out across the street, the police would drive by, but I never saw any violence.’

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11107821.The_Ritz_to_The_Opera_House__here_s_our_list_of_12_forgotten_nights_out_in_Bournemouth/
28th March 2014
The Ritz to The Opera House: here's our list of 12 forgotten nights out in Bournemouth
Katie Clark DailyEcho
Le Kilt, Bourne Avenue – Bournemouth’s first ever discotheque. It was opened in 1963 by Edna and Jack Ashworth who ran the Swiss Restaurant before going into business with Louis Brown. After Jack died, Edna continued to help run the restaurant and club until closing the doors for good in 1975.

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Amazed by the response & reaction to my piece - thank you. Bournemouth will always hold a very special place in my life. The two clubs Samantha's & Le Kilt were both owned by Louis Brown who owned half of London's discotheques at the time. Le Kilt was run by the very suave, E Type owning David Shellard! He saw Samantha's as serious competion although Adriano's at the Lansdowne was probably more of a threat!

Hello Adrian - thank you for the information - its always interesting and useful to receive information about items. I did actually research it slightly on the internet before listing it and found this wonderful website full of photos from the club. As is often the case, I was intrigued and fascinated by the website and was quite distracted looking at all the fun pictures and information....I had to laugh, last night, as when I received your message I thought Id look at the website again to see if it was you...and yes it was!! and there was the picture of le kilt flier on my coffee table!!! No worries, it made me laugh and can I say what a wonderful website, very nostalgic and you all obviously had much fun then!! ONce again thank you for information, I will probably relist the item in the next few weeks,
kind regards, Avril