Mary Ingolby
Email :mingoldby@blueyonder.co.uk
LIBERACE
When Liberace visited Bristol for the first time homosexuality was still illegal. He dressed down, a bit. He played the Hippodrome and then went looking for boys. He had a black coat and hat though I don’t think anyone would have recognised him where he was going. For some reason he tried to speak in and English – I think he might have had more luck as an exotic foreigner. He came in here all beat up, blood on his silk shirt and a bad eye. Luckily for him number seven was free, the landlady at the time said his hands were very white and never still.BRENDA LEE
I remember waking up there once very early in the morning, it must have been summer because it was light and the window was open and the curtains were moving. I lay and listened. The sound of the early morning - birds and every now and then a car in the distance a comforting noise somehow, civilization, humanity – you know those things you think of early on. I looked out of the window and it was all mist going down the hill, over the allotments, I leant out and the air was cold, it must have been really early because I could still see the moon. I thought about holidays and taxis to the airport. I couldn’t make myself turn around and look back, the room, – the colours of it, the shape in the bed reminding me of my life – I wanted to look out and across and into the distanceD H LAWRENCE – from Travels with a donkey in Palermo
“We’d heard of DH Lawrence of course, I did him for O level, Sons and Lovers, never really got it, but I had to read it. But to see him, a small man from up north he was, meant to be shocking you know, but I wasn’t shocked, he went off with another mans wife, nothing changes does it. I remember now he was on his way to Italy, via Bristol for goodness sake and he wanted to live the life of the working man, all that – of course I had no idea about the working man and didn’t want to frankly. My friend Julia kept saying – you’re a miner aren’t you. We were off to dinner and actually wanted this little man to go away – it didn’t look like he was staying anywhere but I believe he ended up in the Ashley Hotel – we told him to go to St Pauls
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