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- Thread starter Phil
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bobsummers
Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
Phil it looks like the old café in digbeth high St opposite the coach station just past floodgate st.
They did great penny dips their for 2p!
Lloyd
master brummie
It's not the cafe you mean in Digbeth, the one run by two brothers who didn't get on, one cooked bacon in the front kitchen, the other did sausage in the back, and the tomato saucepan hadn't been cleaned out for decades, about 1" crust of burnt toms inside, but the flavour - out of this world!
Don't recognise the place in the picture, but the ancient Wolseley parked outside has seen better days too!
Don't recognise the place in the picture, but the ancient Wolseley parked outside has seen better days too!
Lloyd
master brummie
Burroughes and Watts, the name above the entry door, are Snooker and Pool cue, table and accessories manufacturers - and are still going, but at Canley, Sutton Coldfield now.
https://www.burroughesandwatts.com/index.cfm?method=aboutus
https://www.burroughesandwatts.com/index.cfm?method=aboutus
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Astonian
Sorry mate wrong again
Lloyd
All the best café's in Brum were run along the same lines. If it was spick and span with tablecloths the food was nice but had no taste. If it was a greasy spoon with a bit of grime then it was great.
Mind you the line had to be drawn somewhere, We once did some work at the Lighthouse in Alcester St, but we had our meals around the corner in Moseley St.
Phil
Sorry mate wrong again
Lloyd
All the best café's in Brum were run along the same lines. If it was spick and span with tablecloths the food was nice but had no taste. If it was a greasy spoon with a bit of grime then it was great.
Mind you the line had to be drawn somewhere, We once did some work at the Lighthouse in Alcester St, but we had our meals around the corner in Moseley St.
Phil
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Sorry no.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
It certainly is, we all tend to forget there was more at Snow Hill than the station.
Phil
motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
The cafe opposite Digbeth Coach Station was the Minerva where the brother at the front always hand sliced the long catering loaves of bread and ended up with wedge shaped crusts to finish with. Those crusts made great tomato dips even greater!
motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
Thats nothing Phil if you caught the old 37 to the City Boundary there was a Cafe there at the terminus that did you four greasy tom dips for a shilling in the mid 60's, yum yum!
Mike
Mike
Sure was, remember the hot pie van in the late sixties outside Snow Hill Station and the all night bus stops at the !back of Rackhams!, are they still there, bus stops i mean.
bobsummers
Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
The bus stops still there nickcc101
The van that sold Meat & potato, steak & kidney (onion) pies, and sos & tom sandwiches is long gone I believe. Do you remember the family who owned it? Their Daughter who served there Sue i think was a little cracker. She also had her own van by floodgate st in Digbeth.
Any way after our pies we would walk up to the all nighter bus stops and when people walked through the pigeon park we used to toss stones into the trees, the birds then panicked and made deposits, if you follow my drift. Yes your correct "what horrors we were"! Flushes of youthful pranks. This seems to be developing into its own new thread, great take aways and sandwiches of brum via "Road Side Vans"
john70
master brummie
It was on the Stratford Road Phil, just past the Robin Hood island, the old 37 bus teminus and later the number 90, had a few of them dips myself. great stuff.
Can't remember much about it as we had spent the night in the Rum Runner, Cedar Club (or Club Cedar) or the Tower Ballroom. Used to like the hot potatoe van by New Street Station though.
motorman-mike
Brum visitor who stayed.
Phil ,
Sorry I meant to put Hall Green boundary, (37 in BCT days), the present 37 replaced the BCT44 on the Warwick Road. The Stratford Road 37 was, replaced by the 90 to Monkspath also relacing the Red 154 but not serving Solihull, (one of Midland Red;s busiest routes), and the cause of uproar along Blossomfield Road. Later Soliull was then reconnected to Brum via Blossomfield when the 6 replaced the 90. Change for the sake of change by the WMPTE! Hope you are still awake after that bit of a sermon.
Mike
TURN LEFT INTO THE BEGINING OF SUMMER LANE JUNCTION OF SNOW HILL AND IT WAS ABOUT ONE HUNDRED YARDS FROM THE OLD MEB OFFICE BLOCK
And If You Walk Back To The Juction Of Summer lane You ARE By The Sally Army Hostel
I Can Visulize The Cafe Now And I,M Sure Its The Start Of Summer Lane Coming From Snow hill ,I Think The Meb Left And The Bus Company Took Over There Building , I Rest My Case , Phil
And If You Walk Back To The Juction Of Summer lane You ARE By The Sally Army Hostel
I Can Visulize The Cafe Now And I,M Sure Its The Start Of Summer Lane Coming From Snow hill ,I Think The Meb Left And The Bus Company Took Over There Building , I Rest My Case , Phil
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Mike
Its ok, I'm afraid I've had very little to do with buses after the age of 17. I remember once catching a midland red to Solihull in the early seventies when my car broke down once. I also remember catching the 37 bus to Solihull once as well.
I always either walked or drove, when I was younger and couldn't afford a car I walked, I loved it.
But to answer your question, No I never used the café you mention and I have no recollection of it. Have a look at the café thread for a café that I used to use.
Phil