I used to spend many a night in the lorica. It was the best place to hang out with some of my fiends. Had many happy times in there.Yeah ! I think your probably right. It was here anyway..... I think.
Mike. I know which cafe in question, but I can not remember either. I used to have sandwiches from there when I worked down electric avenue in 1969. I was a trainee welder making tables & chairs for schools just after leaving school.As an Engineering Apprentice at G.E.C.in the 1960's, I used to do day release and one night a week at Erdington Technical College.
On Wednesday night I used to leave work and pop into a cafe on the corner of Electric Avenue and Westwood Road. I cannot remember the name of the cafe or who owned it but the food was real comfort food. The couple who ran it always had a friendly smile and kind words to say which made you come back the next week. Mike.
I remember the Minerva cafe in Digbeth, the staff would slice the bread with a long bread knife, you could see the slicer in the bay window of the cafe, very very good bacon and tomatoes sandwichCarl Chinn's article in the Evening Mail on 27/4/1996 offers memories of cafes in and around Birmingham from people who used them, including the Minerva in Digbeth, Mearn's Coffee House Thimblemill Lane, Collin's Coffee House Bordesley Street, Adelaide Street Coffee shop and Hubbard's Sherlock Street coffee house
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(Photo of the Mikado below was spread over two pages).The Mikado on Martineau Street became a civic restaurant in 1951.
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Source: British Newspaper Archive
HelloThe cafes I recall from my youth were :
Jack’s Cafe on the Coventry Road Hay Mills
Mays Cafe on the Ladypool Road Spakhill
The cafe on Kings Road by the old CWS bike factory cantor remember the name