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Events tagged with "Hurst Street"

Bars & Clubs 2000s

Many of todays gay bars and clubs are situated in the 'Gay Village' area centered on Hurst Street. ...

Bars & Clubs 90s

The 90s saw the dance music explosion, with the rise of super-clubs and all weekend clubbing, many venues became larger and much more gender mixed. Many drug fuelled dance clubs were noted for there attitude free environments where sexuality was not ...

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...

Khan and Bell

Khan and Bell was an alternative clothes shop on Hurst Street, situated where the side entrance to the Arcadian Centre now sits. The shop was the epicentre of the punk and new wave scene in the city, with Pattie Bell being regarded as a contemporary ...

The Jester

or The Court Jester, as it was originally known, was a large cellar situated underneath Scala House on Holloway Circus, built as part of the Inner Ring Road developments in 1964. The bar was notable for its large oval shaped bar at its centre. Origin...

Memories tagged with "Hurst Street"

Development of the Gay Village

Mike was asked about the rate of development in Birmingham and he explained that a big change was prompted by the change of the Nightingale's premises from Thorp Street to Kent Street after the return of the lease to the Hippodrome. Because this was ...

Friend Counseling Service

220 Friend Counseling Service"I was involved with Friend West Midlands, a gay lesbian bisexual counseling service that used to run alongside Switchboard. There was Gay Switchboard one side of the room. It used to be above the Nightingale then it m...

Going to the Steering Wheel

"I went to gay clubs through 1995 - 2001 and later intermittently to a gay bar. I first started going to gay pubs around my eighteenth birthday - my first experience was at the Steering Wheel, which used to be on Hurst Street just opposite the main e...

Lack of Public Investment in the Gay Village

When asked how he viewed the social scene in Birmingham today he replied that he had been very hopeful in the late 1990s because a gay village was emerging and because of what was "almost an over-supply - fourteen or fifteen gay bars at one point and...

New Queer Bashing Threat 1993

This article in 'Outspoken' May 1993 reports on an increase in Queer Bashing in the Gay Village area.NEW QUEER BASHING THREAT IN BIRMINGHAMAn alarming increase in violent attacks on gay men in Birmingham has been reported in the last month, writes Ma...

Patty Bell led the way

“The shop on Hurst Street, its been pulled down to make way for the Arcadian Centre, (its owner - Patty Bell) was the high priestess. She was as good as Vivienne Westwood if not better. Twiggy used to work at the shop; Gay John was influenced b...

Working at Kahn & Bell

After leaving school Twiggy started working in Kahn & Bell, a clothes shop on Hurst Street, (now demolished to make way for the entrance to the Arcadian), the Oasis market was nearby selling alternative gear. His boss at Kahn and Bell, Patty Bell...