Rupert Smith remembers acts from the RVT
Rupert talks about various acts he remembers seeing at the RVT in the early 80’s.
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Paul O’Grady remembers the RVT Police Raids
Paul remembers the Police raiding the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in the 1980’s.
John ‘Ebon-Knee’ Campbell – Tour of the RVT
John has an impromptu look around the RVT
Breda McConnon remembers some of the Police raids on the RVT
Breda and her husband Pat were the Landlords of the RVT from 1979 to 1993. Here, Breda talks about some of the occasions when the Police raided the building.
Paul ‘Ebon-knee’ Campbell remembers the RVT sports days
Paul remembers the charity sports days held around the back of the RVT on Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
Stuart Feather & Bette Bourne talk about polari
Stuart and Bette talk about Polari in the 1950’s and 1960’s and how it was forced on people by the circumstances at the time.
Ronald Wright
Here’s Ron talking about his first visit to a gay pub in London in the early 1950’s which was The Standard in Piccadilly Circus
Bette Bourne & Paul Shaw talk about their favourite RVT acts
Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw talk about the favourite acts they’ve seen at the RVT.
The RVT Re-Opens
Here’s an advert we found from the early 1980’s which announces the re-opening of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern after ‘extensive re-docoration’. I wonder if this was when the bar was moved and the stage area added? Interesting to see mime and drag advertised as 7 days a week, including Sunday morning.
Simon Casson – When the RVT was threatened with demolition
Simon talks about the ‘save our pub’ demos, that took place in the 1990’s when the RVT was threatened with demolition. Here’s a link to an article in from The Pink Paper dated 2nd October 1998.
Police Raids in the 1980’s
Going through the Hall Carpenter Archive in London, there is a lot of articles written in the 1980’s highlighting the number of police raids and entrapment cases going on in gay bars at the time. Here’s a few examples.