The Wolverhampton scene in the 1980s
1980
“In those days (around 1980 – 82) there was a very limited gay scene, though Wolverhampton had the biggest scene. It had a nightclub, owned and run by a brother and sister, Norman and Betty Webb, The Silver Web, which was bigger and we later had the smaller club, the Small Gavans. We were in the centre of town, but the Silver Web was the other side of town, very much on the back streets, not in the entertainment quarter, up a huge staircase with a little door and you knocked. Gavans was very public, with a grand street entrance, and everyone knew what the hell it was. We had The Dorchester from 1992 and sold it in Jan 1996 to Northern Leisure plc and it was no longer gay, and then it closed.”
Contributed by: Bill Gavan, 56