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General Category => Blather and Babble => Topic started by: ladyofthemansion on 07 November 2014, 11:15:26 pm
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Having watched the recent re-runs of that series it shows a dark side to sex work.
However, one of the things featured in Episode 1 was the pub full of mainly prossies all just having a drink.
Do pubs like these exist?
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I loved that series, I've got a client into washing up gloves like the client in the series, I used to drink with a lot of other lap dancers when I danced years ago in Bethnal Green but never known a pub full of hookers,
Maybe street girls have this? X
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Would love to drink in a pub full of hookers like the one in the programme. But maybe that's just telly. X
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Back when this show was written (80s/90s?) I'll bet there was a much bigger 'street' sex scene than now. Even if you just look at Soho - the uBer area for sex and adult work - back in the 80s/90s (and much prior to that, back to 60s) there was a thriving sex scene; not just street walkers and walk ups and brothels, but all the other adult establishments that inahbited the area. Peep shows, strip clubs, XXX adult shops, cinemas, adult "book" shops, lots of women and lots of sexual intent within a small area, the pubs round there must have been regular haunts for pros and clients.
It's nothing like that now.
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In my younger days when I worked the streets there were lots of us hanging about on a certain corner, not in a pub though
as they were shut at that time lol
These days the sex-industry is a lot more private and individual, thanks to internet (I remember advertising in the Sport,
just a phone-number nothing else..,that was the only other way to do it other than work in sauna's or the street).
Maybe there are pubs where dancers etc meet up, but a pub just full of prozzy's?
I doubt it ;)
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There used to be a pub like that in Balsall Heath Birmingham in the 70's and women used to sit in their front room window similar to Amsterdam.
A snippet from wikipedia re Balsall Heath
Street prostitution first appeared in Balsall Heath during the 1950s. Property values fell, attracting Birmingham's poorer migrants. By the 1970s the area was notorious for street robberies and drug dealing. Cheddar Road was the centre of a red-light district worked by 450 women. About half of the 50 houses on this road had prostitutes advertising themselves in the windows, similar to Amsterdam. It was labelled Britain's busiest cul-de-sac.[2]
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Good old days eh ;)
I do think it's a lot safer this way, but you do miss that "camaraderie", it's a lot more of a lonely job these days..
A lot warmer though lol!!
I've been doing this work from before the mobile-phone era, so you had to go out and get your punters. Or put an ad in
the local newspaper.
I grew up in Amsterdam, I never worked in the windows though, they were for the pro's lol, I was only 15, couldn't afford that ;)
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I worked the streets when I started. Men are visual and when we were left alone it was quite busy. Even now I meet a lot of clients who admit it was street punting that got them started and many of them miss it. Maybe that's one reason there seem to be less clients to go around these days.
There was a certain camaraderie, but the drug scene is never far away and best avoided. There were pubs to hang out in but I was too young at the time to mix unnoticed.
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I suppose nowadays the bars/hotel bars in central london are the "new pubs" where wg's hang out and potential clients scout.
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I watched Band of Gold a few months ago. So glad I don't have to 'operate' like that. I am aware of a particular road in my city but I very much doubt the girls who use that get together for a drink after work or band together.
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When I was a lot younger I lived down south, and worked around Soho in the peep shows.
I made some lovely friends there, we all used to meet up and go drinking in the bars around there.
That was the nineties though, I don't think any of those places are left.
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Well I'm watching this excellent series on YouTube as I remember some of the dialogue even though I watched it years ago. Loving it more now I'm actually working.
It reinforces my decision not to do car meets though - Gina's just been murdered. :(
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We should start the trend up again! ;D
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I never thought to look it up on YouTube. Now I can watch the third season which I couldn't find elsewhere :D
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I never thought to look it up on YouTube. Now I can watch the third season which I couldn't find elsewhere :D
Think the third season was just called "Gold" and to anyone with Sky lots of episodes on Catchup on ITV Encore. X
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It was. It made it very hard to look for amongst all the other things called Gold or that have Gold in the title.
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Having watched the recent re-runs of that series it shows a dark side to sex work.
However, one of the things featured in Episode 1 was the pub full of mainly prossies all just having a drink.
Do pubs like these exist?
Band Of Gold is filmed and set in my neck of the woods - Bradford. Well im not in Bradford but near enough. Used to love watching that back in the day. Funny looking back because when I used to watch it , I didnt know that Id one day end up in the same business. :)
Everyone used to call it "going downt lane" or "going on't lane" ( heavy yorkshire accent)
There were pubs like that back in the day . I used to go to a dodgy ( but good ) underground rave down there back in the day and the pub next door was full of WG . Bradford was well known for sex trade back in the Pre - Internet days. In the 80s/90s it was probably only 40% of bradford street girls who had a serious habit. .... Nowadays Id say that the street scene is 95% serious hard drug addicts and the 5% who are clean are the new EE girls. . HUGE drug problem in Bradford , much worse than other citys. You see some of them hopping about on crutches or on one leg because of DVT from injecting. Pretty fucking grim and what saddens me is what sort of men actually pay to go with these girls who are in such a bad state of health.
Many guys I know started out their punting on Bradfords streets , back in the day you could go into certain pubs or street where the girls would congregate , and you could get a " nice clean girl who is just doing it to top up her child benefit money" . The same guys steer well clear now , and stick to the "indoors" scene.
I doubt theres any red light district pubs full of WG these days , as most pubs in that area have been converted into religious houses or shops. Only the bravest and most hardcore of WG and punter braves those Bradford streets these days and theres only a fraction of the number of girls you used to see out there. Its actually a pretty dangerous area for outsiders , 4 serious incidents have been reported locally this week ( people pelted with rocks by the locals , beaten up etc) .
Yep , Bradford red light 2014 is very different to the good old Band Of Gold 80s/90s days sadly as Id love to go in a pub like that :)
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That sounds awful - won't be on my list of tour stops :o
Back to Series 2 of Band of Gold :-X
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Glasgow's the same these days, hardly a red light area to speak of anymore.. Sad in a way. :(
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As anyone got any links to watch this online please
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If you go to YouTube and type in Band of Gold TV series, it comes straight up.
I'm on Series 3 ;D
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band of gold waa brilliant
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I finished series 3 yesterday. It wasn't as good as the previous 2 series. I don't think many of us would get in the same sort of situations as they did!
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band of gold waa brilliant
yes I couldn't stop watching it
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Sad I've finished watching it again. The abuse they suffered was terrible, especially at the hands of pimps!
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I remember watching the first series of band of gold i must of been only about 11-12 years old no way did i ever think i was going to grow up and go into the same business :o
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When I was a lot younger I lived down south, and worked around Soho in the peep shows.
I made some lovely friends there, we all used to meet up and go drinking in the bars around there.
That was the nineties though, I don't think any of those places are left.
Whats a peep show?
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Omg I absolutely used to love this program when it was first on! I was 13 or 14 and all my mates used to love it too, it was actually written after Kay Mellor, the writer, met girls who worked on 'the lane' in Bradford (Lomb Lane) and the main girl, portrayed by Cathy Tyson, wanted Kay to show the viewers that sex workers were only human like the rest of the world and I think she pulled it off!!
There was definitely some moments in it that were totally realistic (although I didn't know that at the time!) and who could forget the guy with the Chicken factory who wanked whilst wearing rubber gloves while Cathy Tyson (can't remember the name of the girl she played) walked up+down with stockings on! There was also gritty moments when the girls were starting to be murdered & then when chicken guy died and left everything to Tyson!!
Memories memories xx
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Yes I remember it, my strongest memory is of Cathy Tyson character in the shower/bath scrubbing herself with bleach and being bleach obsessed in general...if I've remembered it right, it was gritty and realistic when it came out, one of the girls Samantha Morton a very good actress is now playing the lead role in Harlots on TV at the moment.
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Yes I remember it, my strongest memory is of Cathy Tyson character in the shower/bath scrubbing herself with bleach and being bleach obsessed in general...if I've remembered it right, it was gritty and realistic when it came out, one of the girls Samantha Morton a very good actress is now playing the lead role in Harlots on TV at the moment.
Yes you are correct, her character lost it for a while and ended up staying in a mental hospital for a little while and this was after she poured boiling hot water over Mr Durkin's (finally remembered his name) bits and yet he still left her his factory & house! I want a client that puts me in his will!! LoL, Samantha Morton is a brilliant actress and I think Band of Gold was where she got her 'big break', I hate how great programs like this only last for a few seasons x