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lucky wrote:Thanks! That's the first mention of anything being a rent boy hangout (as opposed to simply "friendly sailors"), though there have been plenty of references to places that female sex workers and their sometimes lesbian pimps used to frequent (hence point 4 I assume). Nobody else has mentioned the Casino Club either, where was that? The Angel's Castle Bar, I was mixing up with the Press Bar at the back of the Royal, you're right. Did you ever drink in the North Star down in the docks? People seem to think that was memorably rough, but we don't have an exact location.
Sorry, this isn't exactly current Bar News.
I remember going to the Press Bar at the back of the Royal Hotel two or three times in the mid-nineties, underage drinking with my school mates. I remember at the time having a vague idea that we might have been in a gay bar but being too naive to really know what was going on.
It certainly wasn't anything like any of the stereotypical ideas of what a gay bar might be like. In fact it was one of the scruffiest, run down establishments I've ever visited and most of the patrons were pretty old and rough looking. Still, it was about £1.20 a pint in there and nobody ever bothered us.