Events tagged with "Temple Bar"
Temple Bar
The Temple Bar situated on Lower Temple Street, near to New Street Station was a popular pub with gay men in the 1950s. W. H Auden was known to drink there in the 1940s....
The Trocadero
The Trocadero or the 'Troc' was originally a long narrow bar running from Temple Street through to Bennett's Hill. Although not a gay bar in the sense we know one today, gay men were 'tolerated' there. The bar was the site of an infamous murder in th...
Memories tagged with "Temple Bar"
Laurie Williams recalls the 1940s
“One source of information was Laurie Williams who would tell me about gay sex during the blackout in Birmingham in the war; there was active cottaging and cruising; a circuit of notorious toilets to visit; clubs that were accessed by going up the ba...
The scene in the 50/60/70s
“At the time the bars were fabulous - in the fifties and sixties, all the bars were fabulous. There were still a lot of American bars, still a lot of people who drank cocktails in those days, gin and tonics I suppose. There was the Imperial up Temp...