Memories tagged with "Pool"
Everyone looked butch at the Old Mo
The second person Inge told was a friend she shared a house with, who knew a woman who knew some lesbians in a group ‘Women Oppose the Nuclear Threat’. This friend invited her to the meetings, then she was invited to a pub, and generally built up kno...
f***g lesbians from the Malt Shovel 89-92
Inge also socialised in the back room of the Malt Shovel from around 1989- 1992, and spent her 30th birthday there in 1991. She remembers fights, and again, women had to stop men coming in. “I spent most of the late 80s and early 90s, and a lot of mo...
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.”...
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...
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....