Events tagged with "Hippodrome"
Fred Barnes, Birmingham born music hall star, dies
Fred Barnes (1885-1938) was an English music hall artist.Barnes was born in a bedroom above his father's butcher's shop at number 219 Great Lister Street, Saltley, Birmingham, England. He experienced extremes of success and failure, and as a young ga...
Hurst Street
Hurst Street has become the heart of Birmingham's vibrant Gay Village over the last fifteen years. Previously a run down warehouse district characterised by post war industrial units and Victorian shops and housing, cut off from the rest of the ci...
Nightingale Essex House
The Nightingale decided it wanted to expand, but the Thorp Street site was hemmed in by the Hippodrome Theatre who had plans to expand themselves. The club decided to sell the Thorp Street venue to the theatre and began the hunt for new premises. The...
The Nightingale
Opened in 1967, at 40 years old, The Nightingale, or Gale, is the oldest surviving gay venture in the city. It has a special place in the city's history as it was set up as much as a community venture as a commercial one, a place run for gay people b...
Venus
Club Venus opened at the end of 1980, where the Hippodrome extension is now situated on Inge Street. It occupied an old chapel. ...
Memories tagged with "Hippodrome"
Development of the Gay Village
Mike was asked about the rate of development in Birmingham and he explained that a big change was prompted by the change of the Nightingale's premises from Thorp Street to Kent Street after the return of the lease to the Hippodrome. Because this was ...
How it started
Trevor talks about the Mature Gay Men's Group. “We had friends in Bearwood and we used to go to town a lot but really there was nothing for us, most of the gay crowd from my day had stopped coming into town, it was all kids, all loud music, we used t...