Events tagged with "Farmers Bridge Locks"
Farmers Bridge Locks
Stretching from The National Indoor Arena to to St Chads Cathedral, the 13 Farmers Bridge Locks provided until recently a quite, undisturbed subterranean world popular as a Cruising ground for gay men. In the 1980s and before the lock flight was a se...
Telecom Tower
Birmingham's tallest structure, the Telecom Tower (formerly GPO Tower), Constructed between 1963 and 1966, its cavernous foundations were a popular haunt for gay men as early as the 1970s. Sitting on top of the Farmers Bridge Locks, which until recen...
Memories tagged with "Farmers Bridge Locks"
Cruising under the Telecom Tower
Rob talks about cruising by the Telecom Tower in the city centre and how it was more about social networking than sex "I used to go cruising for sex on the canal under the BT tower in the city on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, along the Farmers Br...