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Events tagged with "Greyhound"

Purple Room, Greyhound Cider House late 70s

The Cider House on Holloway Head was a popular venue for lesbians in the late 1970s. Referred to variously by 'the Purple Room, the Greyhound, and the Cider House, they were in fact all one and the same venue. A women only night was held in the Cider...

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...

Zap published 1978

The first edition of Zap was printed in July/August 1978 and available at a cost of 20p. The editorial committee was Helen Rose, Neil Matthews, Pete Kirby and Steve Ewart, who also contributed some of the articles, along with copies of articles from ...

Memories tagged with "Greyhound"

'Private parties' for lesbians at the Greyhound

G: “The Greyhound in Holloway Head must have just opened (around 1975) because I can remember Den and Sharon who’d founded it. Basically, they’d gone round all the pubs in Birmingham to find somewhere that would take a women only group, which would h...

Gettting conditioned to the gay scene

Because being gay in the police force wasn’t really acceptable, Bernard initially met the Friend group in a pub in Holloway Head (probably the Greyhound). “It was run by these older gay guys, the idea was to introduce you to the gay scene...

Greyhound Women Fight Back

WOMEN FIGHT BACK – article in ‘Zap’, Issue 1, July 1978 by Helen Rose It was a good night, at the Greyhound, 40 women together, all in high spirits, talking, laughing, joking. One or two new, but most knowing each other. That sort of unhassled atmosp...

No women on the scene in the 60s

Trevor talks about the absence of women on the scene in the 1960s. “There was ladies there as well, but in those days, not so many ladies used to come out, but one or two used to come out. Why was that? There were no ladies in the bars, I find that s...

Sociable crowd at the Greyhound in 1975

Gill: “Very fortunately, though he didn’t know it, my husband had decided he would have the children on Tuesday evenings, so that left me free to go to The Greyhound (laughter). It had just started, around 1975; and you (Betty) were going to The Grey...

The Greyhound Cider House late 1970s

The Greyhound Cider House 1977-'80Caroline recalls "Gradually some lesbian women joined the women’s group and one suggested that after our group meeting on Tuesday evening, we went to the Purple Room, a private room in the Greyhound Cider House on Ho...

The scene in the seventies

Bridget said there wasn’t really a gay area 9around the mid to late 1970s), but places dotted over the city, the Grosvenor Hotel up Hagley Road, the Greyhound (Holloway Head) at Five Ways, the Matador in town, the Jester, mainly men, the Silver Web...

Womens eventst came and went 70s and 80s

Very little for women (in the 70s and 80s)“There wasn’t anything specific specifically except women did try to set up stuff. They (women's events) all came and went like they do in London. The Greyhound Pub had a night for dykes and then that closed....