Events tagged with "Guys"
Grosvenor House Hotel
The Grosvenor was a large Victorian hotel situated on the Hagley Road, on the Edgbaston/Bearwood border. About two miles out of the city centre, it was owned by the same couple who owned Guys Limited on Bromsgrove Street, John Walters and Keith Campb...
Guys Limited
Guys was the city's first gay run gay club in the old Bull Ring markets area, now the site of the Wholesale Markets. Previously a ‘Beatnik’ café, it had Papier Mache on the walls to make them look like rock. Co-Proprietors Keith Campbell and John Wal...
Women's access to bars
Pre 1960s Prior to the 1960s, and well into the 1970s there appears to have been very little opportunity indeed for lesbians to get together openly in a social or public space. All the bars noted as being popular with the gay crowd in the 40s and 50...
Memories tagged with "Guys"
The Scene Today
"A hell of a lot of people, lots of my friends, a hell of a lot of people who used to come to Grosvenor, and Guys, are still alive now but don't go to the scene now. Grosvenor was more like a social club, to be honest, far more friendly than the scen...