Events tagged with "Snow Hill Station"
Cottaging and Cruising
Cottaging, from the Polari slang for Public Toilet. Cruising, slang. Meaning to look for sex. Historically for many gay men cottaging and cruising were the only way they could meet other gay men, not only for sex but also for friendship. For ma...
Howards Bar
Howards Bar colloquially known as ‘Robbie's’ after the landlady who ran it and situated opposite Snow Hill Station, the upstairs lounge was very popular with gay men in the 1950s. Demolished in the 1960s for the Inner Ring Road development....
Kennedy Gardens
Large traffic island situated at the northern end of central Birmingham adjacent to Snow Hill Station and St Chads Cathedral. The site was home to the Kennedy Gardens cottage, which was so infamous it was listed in the world wide Spartacus Guide.The ...
Snow Hill
Historic area of Birmingham dominated by Snow Hill Station. In the 1950s the area was home to several Bars & Clubs used by gay men and the station itself had a popular cottage between platforms twelve and seven.The Victorian Railway Station, cove...
Memories tagged with "Snow Hill Station"
it was like a Poofs Parlour
“I got to know people, and then they said ‘Why don’t you come and have a drink, and I remember we went to a bar called Howards Bar by Snow Hill Station, around 1950. It was a perfectly normal bar downstairs, but upstairs was like a ‘Poofs’ Parlour’ –...