Birmingham Leisure
As the industrial hub of the nation, Brummies have historically toiled in frequently adverse conditions in traditional heavy industry and leisue time has always been at a premium. From public parks and swimming baths to nioght clubs and cinemas, Birmingham has enjoyed a full spectrum of leisure activities and in this section we recall some of the Birmingham places where Brummies enjoyed their leisure time.
Paramount Bar – Suffolk Place / Beak Street
Opened by Edward Fewtrell a year before selling-up to Ansell’s Leisure, Paramount was a single-room bar around the corner from Edward’s and Boogies in the heart of the John Bright Street nightclub and bar scene of the 1980s.
Subject to an intervention from Paramount Studios over the name, the bar proved quite a popular venue on [...]
Edward’s No.8 Night Club – The Rock Complex Remembered
As was noted elsewhere in this section, my youthful pubbing and clubbing experiences were based around the ‘Rock’ scene of the mid-1980s, such as it was in those days. This consisted of shuffling from the Costermonger at the back of the Oasis Market to Mr Bill’s on Needless Alley on a Sunday and Wednesday [...]
City Centre Nightlife in the 1980s – An Introduction
Once upon a time in my my youth I could regularly be found gallivanting around the Birmingham pub and club scene in both various states of alcohol-induced abandon and as a member of staff of numerous clubs and bars throughout the 1980s. It is with the hazy memories of this period in mind that I [...]
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