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Still & Sugarloaf
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Picture source: Keith
Mansfield |
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The Still & Sugarloaf was situated on Market
Street, under the old Victoria cinema. It is now part of a Marks & Spencer store. |
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Source: Simon Whittaker |
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My mum and dad, Doug and Freda Ellis, were the landlord and landlady of this
pub from 1972 to 1977 . I worked in the Cellar bar which was really a
squaddie bar during those years . It was always packed and had a skeleton in
a jail in the corner for some bizarre reason. I was 16 when we left to go to
a pub in Kingston upon Thames. |
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Janet Stephens, nee Ellis (June
2013) |
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Just to note
this was a same-sex/gay venue in the 1930s (same as
The Shakespeare in
Norwich, the latter continued as such until demolition in 1960).
In Jeffrey Weeks "Between the Acts" (Routledge, 1991) he interviewed "Lady
May Cambridge" who mentions the venue and used to organise balls and events
for men looking for other men. |
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James Watts (June 2023) |
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I started working there as a barman in about
1976 and became the assistant manager. I left late 1978 to become a milkman.
We were always full of Squaddies at the weekend and "young ladies of
negotiable affection!!" (Thank you Terry Pratchett) whose main client base
were the soldiers. We kept the Redcaps phone number for Oakington Barracks
for when things got bit too frisky!! |
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Chris Keys (June 2025) |
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