f***g lesbians from the Malt Shovel 89-92
1989
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 money, in the back room of the
Malt Shovel, four nights a week for around four years. We used to have
a Women’s Pool Team – I was bloody good at pool – but it was the only
way to get talked to, to learn to play pool. They had a darts board,
and people used to hold their birthdays there. Someone must have
scouted round for somewhere that had a back room where they didn’t mind
lesbians going in because we were all quite heavy drinkers! It was a
room that didn’t get used otherwise.
The worst abuse I ever had was in the chip shop round the corner from the Malt Shovel, ‘Here are the fucking lesbians from the Malt hovel, can we give you a shag darling….’."