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Mikado Cafe Martineau Street

postie

postie

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How many romances have begun ( and possibly ended) in this place. :-\
 

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Postie thanks great to see that place again ^-^

I think I'm the one in the mack nearest the camera, Oisin his one of those fellows by the door. Well didn't we all ware Macks in those days :crazy2:
 
Alfie, that could well be me. I was probably stopping off for a quick coffee before going to watch some smutty film. I always wore me mac on such occasions. ;)
 
Kate M8 Didn't you know it rained in the old Cinema's :o
Thats why the Women wore Headscarfs ;)
 
Kate said:
:) Why was that Paul? :)
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Cos I was a dirty old man even when I was young and I liked a cup of coffee to set me up before going leching. :buck2:

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Who is this "Paul" anyway? :-\
 
Rod said:
Paul is the Oisin On The Forum Cake?
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Bet you've been oisin to come out with that one :2funny:

"Oh a life on the oisin wave/ a life on the..." :buck2:

Anyway, I didn't say, did I... I was a Kardomah man meself, but that's a great photo, postie. O0 As you say, I bet those walls could tell a few stories. ^-^
 
Another picture of the Mikado ;)
 

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I'll tell you Di over the road from Snow Hill Station :) Or was it :-\
 
Have you ever studied a thread and watched it gradually deteriorate from the sublime to the ridiculous? :idiot2:

Why is this board is full of comedians when I thought I was supposed to be the only one? :'(
 
It must be you, poor old soul. I've NEVER noticed that happening. Have you any other symptoms, besides seeing things?
 
Have you ever tried to spell Martineau Street, I'm telling you ,mate, it cannot be done!. O0
 
Spell it??? Rod and I had trouble finding it! You try finding it when you can't spell it. :-\
 
l love those old photo's of Burnigum, can anyone post one of the Kardomah corner of the Western Arcade l think?
 
Your wish is my command. ::)
 

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Thanks for the info postie. :smitten: I'll never call it by any other name now. :)

GER22VAN there is quite a lot on the Kardomah on the forum. I met my beloved there and wrote about it, and there was a lot of follow up. Go and have a look from the search box. :)
 
Thanks a lot to you Postie and Di Poppitt, l will certainly do a little more exploring as its such a large site and l dont think l have see half of it yet. Thank you both once more.
 
The Mikado Cafe, Martineau St.
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The floors above the photo of the Mikado was where I went to school at Lawrence's College. What year did the Mikado close down because I don't remember it? I remember Abdullah's shop which later became a jewellery store and there was also a photo studio in that area at a later date.. Roy's I believe was the name. The college was on the 2nd and third floor of that building at the corner of Martineau and Corporation Street. The front windows pf the College looked right into the Midland Educational shop with the clock which we always watched! Corporation Street was totally different in l953 with the Cobden Hotel, Barrow's, Dunn's and some really nice buildings up to Bull Street.
 
Having a tidy up in my computers I saw old photos of the Mikado Cafe I must have previously saved.
Had a search on here and cannot find any but they were in Coppermine so I've brought them out to this old thread.

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yes di it was next to that kardo ;one across from the snow hill station and almost next to the station and the bus stops was on the station side years ago was at the same time a tea room cafe run by george jelf or i think it was arther jelf ; whom had another one down by nechells
but thats where the micara was ; and years ago in that that arcade joe lyons and jelfs grand father was in competion in those days
as informed by my mother years ago it was her grand father they was wearing the same out fit as lyons,s
and prior to that i think it was hughes and patterson ; then a decade or so later years these two cooffe shops ; mickardo and the kardoma came onthe scene generations later ; and yes there was many a happy couple done there courting and marriges developed there as well ;
mine was at the old tea caravan out side snow hill that used to be there years ago ; where we bumped into each other and now married for 36 happy years ;
thirty seven years in may ; astonian;;
 
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the old tea caravan out side snow hill that used to be there years ago ; where we bumped into each other and now married for 36 happy years ;
thirty seven years in may ; astonian;;
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Hi Astonian
A couple of pictures show an old tea caravan outside Snow Hill click HERE to see them.

I had cups of tea there on my way home after a night out.

oldmohawk
 
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