Events tagged with "Noelle Gordon"
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 "Noelle Gordon"
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 ...
Gay life in West Bromwich 1960s
Pam moved to live above a pub – The Three Mile Oak in West Bromwich (no longer there) - with her first long term partner and two gay male friends. “We used to hold gay evenings on a Wednesday night in the upstairs bar (of the Three Mile ...
Grosvenor 1970s
Then Pam’s favourite place opened, the Grosvenor Hotel on the Hagley Road, very much more upmarket, John Walters owned it and two of his regular clients were Peter Harris who designed the muppets and Noelle Gordon as well. The Nightingale had moved t...
Larry Grayson at the Grosvenor
Karen remembers that Larry Grayson and Noelle Gordon were always in the Grosvenor House Hotel in the late 1970s, she was under age but her friends used to sneak her in....
Laurie Williams and the Jug
“Laurie Williams was later the owner of The Jug, first in a central area (Albert Street) now redeveloped, and then it moved to Water Street/ Livery Street. Laurie was involved in politics and was a lifelong humanist. He was a good friend and agent of...
Noelle was totally domineering
"Noelle Gordon was the principle boy, a thigh slapping lad who used to dress in tight costumes like Aladdin for example.” “She was totally domineering…but she mellowed towards me…she became a wonderful person.” ...
Women only disco at the Imperial
There was quite a divide between the political and non political lesbians, so Pam never went to the Old Mo or the Women’s Discos at the Star Club. She would go to “the rubbishy ones at The Imperial on a Wednesday evening, to chat someone up, not to g...