Coffee bar

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Thu 19 Nov, 2009 12:25 am

Have you read the replies so far wilf?There was a Kardomah on Briggate up until the 1960s, just below Thornton's Arcade I think.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Thu 19 Nov, 2009 3:20 pm

Chrism wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCiUsjtTcDU Thanks forthelink Chris - I enjoyed it.Didn't realise there were so many versions

alanlad · Post by **alanlad** » Thu 19 Nov, 2009 9:23 pm

Think the Kardoma was on the corner of Albion Place & Briggate. Now its The Body Shop. It used to be Horne Bros in 60'70's I think.Anyone remember Lyon's Tea Shop? Think its about where M&S is now.

Willy · Post by **Willy** » Mon 13 Jun, 2011 7:58 pm

Thats correct Ian,I was one of the first members signed up byMike Brash mid 1967, I just lived up the road so I was in thereevery night, met some lovely girls there, the summer of love.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 13 Jun, 2011 8:26 pm

I may be wrong but I think there once was a Kardomah on Albion Street roughly about where now the entrance to the Bond Street Centre is on Albion Street near Boots. I particularly recall the lovely smell of coffee that came out.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Mon 13 Jun, 2011 10:17 pm

According to this:https://sites.google.com/site/kardomah/ ... leedsthere was just the one. That's a good picture of it!

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Mon 13 Jun, 2011 10:18 pm

But wait...a quick squizz at leodis revealshttp://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIde ... SPLAY=FULL

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Mon 13 Jun, 2011 10:55 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: But wait...a quick squizz at leodis revealshttp://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIde ... SPLAY=FULL This is the one I remember too. Just up the road from Pobjee's gardeners' supplies shop!alanlad, I remember a Lyons Cafe on Bond Street in the 1960s, but that part of Bond Street doesn't exist any more as it was turned into Bond Court. The street used to extend beyond the current Bond Street across Park Row down the side of the old Museum (now HSBC!) and connected with the junction of Infirmary Street and East Parade.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 13 Jun, 2011 11:26 pm

I can't recall exactly but I think it might have been in the late 1960's or early 1970's there was a coffee bar on the Grand Theatre side of New Briggate where the shops are off the Headrow. When it opened I recall that it was very expensive. I think it did not last that long. I cannot remember its name. Someone may recall it if only because the price for a coffee was so expensive.