The County Council grant was never paid 87/88
1987
Following the media hysteria, there was a legal challenge to the West Midlands Residuary Body, the legal body charged with winding up the affairs of the County Council, and we got into the position where we were paying for the other running costs, we couldn?t keep up the mortgage payments, so we had to hand the keys over to the bank and the centre closed. For a while The Lesbian and Gay Community Centre used the Star Club?s premises (the Communist Party Social Club with bar and meeting rooms and downstairs and the Socialist Bookshop), but it looked bleak, we were trying desperately to get the money. In the end the Residuary Body gave the money to Birmingham City Council who ensured the payments were made to all the other organisations except ours. The Residuary Body had also run out of money, so we now had to deal with the City Council, now end 87/beginning 88?.
Contributed by: Lyn David Thomas, 47