Events tagged with "Kardomah"
Cafes
In the 1950s and 60s coffee bars and cafes were as popular meeting places as pubs and bars, due to restrictive licensing laws. Notable cafes included the ornate Kardomah on New Street, El Torro by Colunnade Passage, the Tow Rope on Broad Street and t...
Impact of Licencing Laws
Much of the way that gay people socialised, when and where, was influenced by the licencing laws at the time.Back in the 1950s and earlier, bars were licenced only till 10:00p.m. so many gay men moved on to one of a number of cafes, coffee bars or mi...
The Kardomah Cafe
The Kardomah Cafe was a popular meeting place in the 1950s and 60s. The building still stands on New Street and is occupied by Muji and Ted Baker.(In the image above the words Kardomah Cafe can clearly be seen on the stone work!)...
Memories tagged with "Kardomah"
Kardomah Cafe in the 1950s
A group of students, mostly gay and gay friendly met at the KardomahCafé on New Street on Saturday mornings. “It was strange, it was before coffee bars and cappuccino, they came later. It was a large room with tables laid out, like a cafeteria, not a...
Saturday at the Kardomah
"There weren't cafes just the Pantheon, the gays used to congregate on a Saturday morning, lunchtime, in the Kardomah Café in New Street, down in the basement, don't know what it is now, think it is a Ted Baker, and Muji, nice old building with all t...