Events tagged with "Crossroads"
Crossroads and Noelle Gordon
The soap 'Crossroads' started on the 2nd November 1964 and was the first daily serial on UK television. It was filmed in Birmingham by ATV at Gosta Green and later Broad Street. Some of the actors are noted as frequenting bars also used by the gay co...
Larry Grayson
Larry Grayson could regularly be found at the Grosvenor House Hotel with his best friend Noelle Gordon.Larry Grayson was one of the first television comedians to suggest an openly gay persona. He did not achieve stardom until he was in his fifties an...
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 "Crossroads"
Fantastic Grosvenor House
“When I moved to Birmingham (1980) a whole group of us would go out, there was a club on the Hagley Road, a hotel - The Grosvenor House Hotel. Noelle Gordon from Crossroads used to be slung up in the bar and it had a swimming pool. It was absolutely ...
The Jester, a First Trip to Birmingham
Mike described his impressions of Birmingham on his first visit in 1986 and focused on his first visit to a gay bar in Birmingham early one evening before getting the train back to Manchester. "It was The Jester which is on Horsefair, just by Bristol...