Was the Cossack a gay pub ?

[0114owl1867]

Errrrrr yes it was !

[Kristian]

I remember the two feisty young bar girls there in around 2000-2001. The brunette had a very interesting bee-hive - I always wondered hw she managed to get it so tall and stiff !!

 

I remember her; was she a Glaswegian?

[roughy101]

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 ?

this brought back memories pete and margarete drabble were good friends of my parents, petes parents were landlord and landlady at the abourthorne hotel for years.

i have a lovely pic somewhere which was in the star of petes mom (cant remember her name) my mom and other customers wearing easter bonnets,they were lovely people:D

[zakes]

Was The Cossack a gay pub?

 

The Cossack was at some time re-named But(t)'n Ben for a while and then went back to it's original name. I'd like to relate some of my own experiences of this Tetley pub in the early 70's.

 

1. In early 70's whenever I had a new girlfriend I would go out with her to pubs on the Howard Street side of the railings on Eyre Street/ Arundel Gate. This was to prevent my mates who drank in the Buccaneer and the pubs around Cambridge Street etc from eyeing her up. Remember, most of the time when you lose a girl it's quite often to one of your own mates.

Anyway, one evening I went with a bird called Jean into the Cossack on Howard Street. Jean was 18 and I was a few weeks short of 18, I had a pint of bitter and she had a coke (yes, coke not Pepsi). A while later two men approached us and asked what I was drinking and I told them to clear off. One of the blokes pulled his police I.D. out and asked me how old I was. I gave them the name of my next brother up who was 1 year 2 months and 10 days older than me. One copper with a big smirk on his face told me that I could be charged with giving misleading information, because they had heard people call me by a different Christian name during their previous visits to the Minerva pub (Whitbread) on Charles Street, (where I had been supping since I was 15). I came clean by giving them my real details, I also asked them why they hadn't done me before in the Minerva for underage drinking and they told me not to be cheeky or they'd lock me up for the night. I later assumed that they had not wanted to blow their cover in the Minerva because they might of been observing for drugs there.

The case was at Nursery Street Juvenile Court and I was found guilty of underage drinking and was fined 3 quid (approx. 24 pints). Even though I was almost 18, I found to my dismay I wasn't too big not to get a hiding, and that's exactly what me mother did.

 

2. Some weeks later I was in the Cossack again with the lovely Jean and this time I was legally allowed to drink (it tasted better when it was illegal). After a couple of drinks I went to the bogs to splash me boots. Inside the lav that was situated outside at the back of the pub the lights weren't on (wonder why?). After I finished me slash I turned around in the total darkness and was verbally accosted by some ducky. I wasn't angry, just scared and I lashed out and connected with his face, then I pushed him out the way. I ran into the pub and grabbed the alarmed Jean and went off to the Red Lion (Wards) on Charles Street. The Cossack was never visited by me again!

 

Jean left me some months later, and guess what?......Yes, for one of me mates!

[Sir Enoch]

Bent as a ten bob note

 

As bent as a nine bob note more like!

[patto]

Once dropped a 50p on the floor in the Cossack. Left it there rather than risk bending down to pick it up.

[pjkay]

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 ?

Does it really matter..if you had a good time and came home happy..Who cares about the sexuality of the companyxxx...I always liked Cary Grant and Liberace and Queen....never took their swing into the equasion!!

[fox0114]

SHU control room staff used to spend a lot of time looking at the security camera screens covering the outside area around that place - unbelievable what some of them got upto after closing time:blush:

[gnvqsos]

SHU control room staff used to spend a lot of time looking at the security camera screens covering the outside area around that place - unbelievable what some of them got upto after closing time:blush:

 

Lets hope they managed to handle their emotions and feelings after the spectacle.If I had watched that sort of thing I am not sure I would want to publicise the fact-like a gay voyeur/peeping tom.Choice:hihi:

[fox0114]

Lets hope they managed to handle their emotions and feelings after the spectacle.If I had watched that sort of thing I am not sure I would want to publicise the fact-like a gay voyeur/peeping tom.Choice:hihi:

 

Thanks gnvqsos. They had a laugh and were astonished at what they saw but providing no-one was attacked or abused or stabbed no further action was necessary. We're all voyeurs and peeping toms of one sort or another, even now viewing threads from people totally unknown to you but wanting to share their experiences in life with others is not necessarily a bad thing.