StJohn Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 If I had any mates coming to Sheffield, by train, for the first time we would always say meet in the Cossack then I had another mate, who was a real daft bugger, go in with a bunch of flowers and get down on one knee. StJohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddycoffee Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 In the 60s it certainly had a reputation but the term 'gay' wasn't the one in use then. I seem to remember it was a 'lock up' pub with no living quarters. The toilets were outside round the back and I think the brewery was Tetley. Here is a pic I took of the cossack in 2000 http://www.thewookie.co.uk/pubs/thecossack.jpg The pub was single storey because the upstairs was destroyed by the Luftwaffe in October 1940. It was quite an old pub built in 1833. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SugarPuff Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Wow! Thankyou for posting that photo, muddycoffee! I've printed it out to keep! What a great reminder of my early days of gay pubbing and clubbing! Thanks again! :DXX (Excuse all the exclamation marks but I'm really chuffed at the picture!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddycoffee Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 You are most welcome sugarpuff. You may like to visit my website where I have been surveying many of the local pubs where that photo came from. http://www.thewookie.co.uk/pubs/sessions.htm#table there is another forummer who has also made a similar website, and I am aiming to add a link to it the next time I do some work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SugarPuff Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Wow again! I've now got a picture of Rebels aswell! I spent my late teens and early 20s in the Wap, Yorkshireman and Rebels! Shame there's not a pic of the Wap. I've printed the Yorkshireman and Lion's Lair as I drank in both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treatment Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 You are most welcome sugarpuff. You may like to visit my website where I have been surveying many of the local pubs where that photo came from. http://www.thewookie.co.uk/pubs/sessions.htm#table there is another forummer who has also made a similar website, and I am aiming to add a link to it the next time I do some work. That pub in your photos called ''Flares'' - that was the West Street Hotel wasn't it ? A smashing pint in the 1970's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptrA Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 having spent a long time of my childhood living on eyre lane where my family were caretakers of a factory ,i used to go to the globe pub landlord pete drabble..... down the road in the seventies a gay man called pete had the cossack, i was allways told it was a gay pub was this true ? Can a fish swim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okismoki Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Can a fish swim mine cant,i found him floating on the top of his tank this morning,i think he,d drowned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treatment Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Can a fish swim Do Bears ***** in the woods ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhoy Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Bent as a ten bob note Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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