The Plough pub was scrubbed out, patched up and partly repainted after negotiating permission from Lancaster City Council in the early 1970s and then opened as a refuge for women escaping domestic violence and their children. It was set...
The Slip Inn was boycotted by some local people in the late 1970s or early 1980s after someone was asked to leave for reading Gay News....
During the 1970s a house in Ashfield Avenue hosted local meetings of the Beaumont Society, the national support organisation for transgender people, founded in 1966....
GLF helped to organise a major demonstration in the early seventies, which concerned the proposals of the Conservative government to alter the payment of family allowances – or child benefit – which would have had...
The Shakespeare (now a B&B) is remembered from the period around 1970-71 as a popular hangout for ‘all sorts of bohemians and malcontents from Situationists to revolutionary Marxists’ and a number of local radical gay men....
The Odd Spot was a café owned by a gay man who, in the early 1970s, held gay parties once a month in the rooms above the café. Entrance was one shilling (five pence) and...
Global Link is an educational charity in Lancaster running workshops, exhibitions, training and other events in schools, colleges and the wider community on global citizenship issues such as diversity, human rights, migration, fair trade, climate...
During the late 1970s a building just down the road from the Farmers Arms was used as a Women's Centre. The Centre provided books, advice, meetings and the ubiquitous parties!...
Described as a 'community pub', Kampus (now The Pub) was a popular venue in the 2000s, run by 'Norma' who also ran the Duke of Lancaster at that time....
The Royal King’s Arms Hotel was known on and off as an LGBTQ-friendly bar until the early 1990s. The first CHE discos were held there in the 1970s....