Events tagged with "Bull Ring"
Bull Ring
The Bull Ring is the historic markets area and centuries old heart of Birmingham. The area suffered from heavy bomb damage during the World War II Blitz and was marked for comprehensive redevelopment during the 1960s, sweeping away fine grained urban...
Bull Ring Shopping Centre
The infamous Bull Ring Shopping Centre was built on the site of the historic Bull Ring markets. It was opened on May 29 1964 and had cost an estimated £8 million. The shopping centre covered 23 acres and had 350,000 sq ft of retail trade area. When o...
Women's access to bars
Pre 1960s Prior to the 1960s, and well into the 1970s there appears to have been very little opportunity indeed for lesbians to get together openly in a social or public space. All the bars noted as being popular with the gay crowd in the 40s and 50...
Memories tagged with "Bull Ring"
Cruising in the Bull Ring 1950s
Trevor talks about meeting other gay men in the historic Bull Ring area, early 1950s "You think, where can this happen, I’d moved back home, and come the weekends I used to go into town, wander round, and most of my time was spent in the Bull Ring, t...
Gay Centre discos at the Matador
“Prior to the Nightingale moving into town (Thorp St) in 1981 there was nothing in the city centre other than the original Gay Community Centre discos in Allison Street, bring your own booze, and 25p for a baked potato, that sort of fund-raising. So ...
Hundreds Join AIDS Vigil
This editorial from 'In The Pink', December 1989, reports the first World Aids Day Candlelight Vigil in Birmingham and also highlights the way some right wing politicians used the human tragedy of the AIDS crisis to further their ideology.HUNDREDS JO...
Massive change in Village since 1990
Mike described the change in the social side in Birmingham since 1990. He felt that there had been a "massive change", referring again to the "two gay basement bars (The Jester and one gay club (Nightingale)" around when he first arrived in 1987, alt...
Opening Guys Limited Nightclub
"In 1966 John (Walters) found some premises in the old Bull Ring, down the bottom of Bromsgrove St, where the fruit and vegetable market is now, which was a beatnik café. (The walls) were papier mache to make them look like caves."I was 17 then and J...