A very ornate and beautiful pub
1952
Trevor recalls The Woodman on Easy Row, “I still didn’t meet people you could become friendly with, and then I remember we went to a pub by the West End Cinema, called The Woodman, very ornate, beautiful tiled place, absolutely lovely, pulled down now, that was semi-gay. Most of my connections were still probably in the toilets, and being picked up in the bar. This is a strange thing I found out, most of the gay men at that time were not interested in a man of my age (early 20s); at the age I am now (76), I’m not interested in young people, so this could have been the thought of a lot of people in the bars, that they weren’t interested in young people.”
Contributed by: Trevor Hall, 76