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Still & Sugarloaf

Picture source: Keith Mansfield


The Still & Sugarloaf was situated on Market Street, under the old Victoria cinema. Now part of a Marks & Spencer store.
Source: Simon Whittaker
 
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.
Janet Stephens, nee Ellis (June 2013)
 
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.
James Watts (June 2023)
 

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Name Dates Comments
Terry Johnson 1982/1985 Landlord was Martin Sloan, wife Jackie.