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Date of photo: 1984	Picture source: Alan Winfield
The Roebuck was situated on Mansfield Road. This pub closed in 1995 and was also known as Old Moore's Tavern, then The Empire, and finally Bobby Brown's Cafe. Demolished to make way for redevelopment of the Victoria Centre.
Source: Stephen Heasell
I recall this wonderful old Nottingham Pub from about 1969. I was 17 and Nottingham had quite a lively gay scene unlike Leicester. It was before the days of Nottinhams gay clubs and car loads would travel over from Leicester on I think Tuesday night meet in the White Horse Parliament Square. Have a pint in there and then on to the Roebuck which had a regular disco upstairs. At the time it was the roughest pub I had ever been in so was a bit of an adventure for a teenager. There were all sorts of dodgy looking charictors in there with facial scars, tattoos etc. I recall going to the old white tiled outside gents worrying if I would be safe. A drag queen followed a "rough" in, he lifted up his skirt, and had a pee, I was worried there might be trouble. The drag queen said "hello darling" to the "rough", who replied "i'm alreet Fred, how ya doing"? I never saw any trouble there. I realised that there was a special relationship between the different working class sections of Nottingham, people tolerated each other and accepted that we were all different in our own ways. Life was too hard for many in that area. Later the big clubs opened in Nottinham so we drifted away from the Roebuck. But I will never forget those nights. It was fun and exciting. Not like boring Leicester. It was a special place where the unlikeliest people crossed paths. I wish I could go back one more time!
David Shaw (September 2017)
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Name	Dates	Comments
Paul Ryan	1971	Landlady was Maxine

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Site of The Roebuck, 2022	Picture source: Anthony Beaumont