Events tagged with "Old Moseley Arms"
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 "Old Moseley Arms"
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...
Lesbian Feminist meetings at Tindal Street School
“Opposite the Old Moseley Arms was Tindal Street School, which allowed lesbian feminist meetings to be held on a Sunday, and those were hilarious, you could look back now and do a sit com – there was one very diminutive woman who used to knit all ...
Locked in at the Old Mo
Gill: “The Old Moseley Arms on Tindal Street. The room we used was dominated by the pool table, you were round the edge of the pool players. There were lock ins.”...
Mixing at the Old Mo
“We (the feminists) had a lot of social contact with other lesbians, mainly around the Old Moseley Arms pool room. The ‘straight dykes’ (meaning non-feminists who’d come through the gay scene rather than the women's liberation movement), thought we w...
The Old Moseley Arms
Bridget said “The biggest meeting place round here (King's Heath) was the Old Moseley Arms - the ‘Old Mo’ which was quite amazing really – in the public bar at the front, were prostitutes, tramps, alcoholics, police drinking, and a huge lesbian cl...
Well Received in the Old Mo
“The Old Moseley Arms (Old Mo) was another good venue for lesbians, it was a straight pub and we were well received. The pool room was heavily used by women."...
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....