Events tagged with "Windmill"
Gay Village
Birmingham's Gay Village stretches the length of Hurst Street and everything to the right towards Bristol Street. The top end of Hurst Street has been a focus of gay life since the 1970s with the Jester, Windmill and Thorp Street Nightingale all serv...
Glamourous
One of Birmingham's longest standing gay venues situated at the top end of Hurst Street in Albany House (built 1963), previously the Windmill, Partners and Enigma. Reopened in 2003 as Glamourous Showbar providing live drag shows every night of the w...
Hurst Street
Hurst Street has become the heart of Birmingham's vibrant Gay Village over the last fifteen years. Previously a run down warehouse district characterised by post war industrial units and Victorian shops and housing, cut off from the rest of the ci...
Partners Bar
Previously the Windmill, the bar was taken over by John Jeffries, aka jinks, Brian Wigley and Martin Healey in the summer of 1987, they traded under the Windmill name for a short while and then refurbished the bar, opening as Partners in October 198...
The Windmill
The Windmill became a gay bar in the 1970s, it later became Partners Bar...
Memories tagged with "Windmill"
80s alternative scene
Mark F talks about the gay scene when he came out in the early 80s "I realised I was gay and this was when I also decided to visit what Birmingham had to offer a young gay man, who liked alternate music and had a penchant for make-up and a slightly (...
Only two bars to choose from
“When I first came out there were only two bars and the Nightingale, the bars were the Windmill and the Jester. I’d heard of the Jug too but never ventured down there.At that time, all the bars were downstairs, there were no windows, it was pretty gr...
The Windmill to Partners
The Windmill became a gay bar. Near there was a couple of places that were notorious. “The roof of the car park opposite was a rabid place for queens. The rent boys would hang on the steps of the car park. They could see Queensway behind them, the ...