Caffs & Greasy spoons

Bramley4woods · Post by **Bramley4woods** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 4:45 pm

zip55 wrote: Hi great map of the cafes mentioned but there's one I mentioned earlier with no confirmation. I'm sure it was on Albion St, near the top (Headrow) and weas a place where you picked out your food and then popped in a little micorwave box. Called the 'magic Box' perhaps .. this is from around 1970 or so Yes, that was there, completely unattended as I recall. About where the Halifax Building Soc. is.I never ate in there, the food was quite "school dinnery", meat + veg, with yorkshire pudding, sponge pudding and custard. All microwaved from frozen.

Bramley4woods · Post by **Bramley4woods** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 5:10 pm

simonm wrote: Thanks to Arry Awk for sending me the following information.Below are some screen shots from a list of Leeds cafes and restaurants,taken from a book of the same titleby Donald Tate. It was published in 1988 and contains some great pix dating back to 1902! Arry got permission from Donald, via his wife,Margaret, to publish any photos from the book for S/Leeds. So here's a few to start with.A menu from Woolworths, does anyone remember it? Does anybody else think that Woolworths menu is a bit odd ? The lobster is the same price as the sardines on toast !Secondly if it was on a Monday 11th of September sometime Ca. 1940 it will have been either 1939 or 1944. By 1944 we were deep in rationing and very few of those choices would have been available at all let alone on the same day.I wonder if it was made as a training or design exercise, or something.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 7:28 am

Bramley4woods wrote: simonm wrote: Thanks to Arry Awk for sending me the following information.Below are some screen shots from a list of Leeds cafes and restaurants,taken from a book of the same titleby Donald Tate. It was published in 1988 and contains some great pix dating back to 1902! Arry got permission from Donald, via his wife,Margaret, to publish any photos from the book for S/Leeds. So here's a few to start with.A menu from Woolworths, does anyone remember it? Does anybody else think that Woolworths menu is a bit odd ? The lobster is the same price as the sardines on toast !Secondly if it was on a Monday 11th of September sometime Ca. 1940 it will have been either 1939 or 1944. By 1944 we were deep in rationing and very few of those choices would have been available at all let alone on the same day.I wonder if it was made as a training or design exercise, or something. maybe its just 1939,ration books not even thought about,were sardines out of season in september,was lobster cheap then,like beef was when i was a kid,and chicken was dear as hell...

Si · Post by Si » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 9:45 am

It probably wasn't real lobster. Mock lobster? Maybe the 1930s equivelent of those pink and white seafood stick things?

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 12:07 pm

Was lobster in the 30's / 40's treated with such respect as it is now? Lets face it, spider crab was always killed by fishermen and thrown back in as they considered it a pest. Cracking food it is, but a few years ago villified!! Maybe lobster was much more of a more available commodity and not regarded with such high esteem back then?? Look at the way chicken and beef have had complete turnaround.

Si · Post by Si » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 12:13 pm

Could be. Oysters were once part of the staple diet.

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 2:07 pm

wiggy wrote: rikj wrote: Yes, of all the despicable LCC schemes this is one of the worst. I really can't see how they can get away with this, and I hope the Office of Fair Trading bang them to rights. How would LCC feel if they had to bid every year to keep trading from the Civic Hall? Yet that's what they are trying to do to us.That poor lass invested lots of time and money in that site, yet only got 7 months trading out of it.Anyone who has a good idea (selling a particular product in a particular place) is being asked to give the idea away for free to the highest bidder. I could live with it if the bid got you 10 years on the pitch, but 1 year, no. The only saving grace is the spineless, toothless LCC enforcement. Maybe the traders can just swamp them. i agree,that place is an institution, LCC can go bailhooks,money money money....as i have said before..i won't vote labour ever again,they are not the party for the working man any more,they are tories in disguise.leave the people of leeds alone,go pick on the ones that don't care about anything else but destroying our country and culture...and if you want to ban me...then so be it...but tell everyone why...oh and while your about it....(men in grey suits this is all meant for)..tell the health and effing safety man to stick his opinions where monkies stick their nuts...love wiggy xx I'm no apologist for Labour Wiggy but surely the council has been Tory and LibDem since 2004. Get angry but blame the right fellas. i think it is a disgrace that this young woman is being out bid. All this will mean will be higher prices to cover the cost of the bid. I reckon it should be boycotted personally.Great cafe's? David Street off Water Lane, there was one under where that Cop house is now which was opretty cool. there is still one down the City Varieties ginnell but there never seems to be anyone in it. Actually you can't beat Wetherspoon's breakfast for £2.49. "Appetite" behind the Wellesley is great but not cheap.

Si · Post by Si » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 3:56 pm

Dunny's by the river in Otley always seems very popular. Apparently Sir Jimmy is often seen in there.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 7:14 pm

Reginal Perrin wrote: wiggy wrote: rikj wrote: Yes, of all the despicable LCC schemes this is one of the worst. I really can't see how they can get away with this, and I hope the Office of Fair Trading bang them to rights. How would LCC feel if they had to bid every year to keep trading from the Civic Hall? Yet that's what they are trying to do to us.That poor lass invested lots of time and money in that site, yet only got 7 months trading out of it.Anyone who has a good idea (selling a particular product in a particular place) is being asked to give the idea away for free to the highest bidder. I could live with it if the bid got you 10 years on the pitch, but 1 year, no. The only saving grace is the spineless, toothless LCC enforcement. Maybe the traders can just swamp them. i agree,that place is an institution, LCC can go bailhooks,money money money....as i have said before..i won't vote labour ever again,they are not the party for the working man any more,they are tories in disguise.leave the people of leeds alone,go pick on the ones that don't care about anything else but destroying our country and culture...and if you want to ban me...then so be it...but tell everyone why...oh and while your about it....(men in grey suits this is all meant for)..tell the health and effing safety man to stick his opinions where monkies stick their nuts...love wiggy xx I'm no apologist for Labour Wiggy but surely the council has been Tory and LibDem since 2004. Get angry but blame the right fellas. i think it is a disgrace that this young woman is being out bid. All this will mean will be higher prices to cover the cost of the bid. I reckon it should be boycotted personally.Great cafe's? David Street off Water Lane, there was one under where that Cop house is now which was opretty cool. there is still one down the City Varieties ginnell but there never seems to be anyone in it. Actually you can't beat Wetherspoon's breakfast for £2.49. "Appetite" behind the Wellesley is great but not cheap. i am angry with labour as a matter of course,look at the state of this once green and pleasant land...they are running the country...and they sold out the labour dream.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 9:17 pm

[quotenick="wiggy"][quotenick="Reginal Perrin"] wiggy wrote: rikj wrote: Yes, eap. i am angry with labour as a matter of course,look at the state of this once green and pleasant land...they are running the country...and they sold out the labour dream. All probably true and justified - but they are better than the alternative. If they'd stayed in there'd be no health service left today for starters. It was they who destroyed British manufacturing industry, it was they who brainwashed the majority of the electorate into thinking that taxes should only go one way, it was they who sold off the council house stock at a discount and didnt' replace them, it was they who privatised hospital cleaning giving us the dirty hospitals they had the cheek to complain about at the last election. I've been a Labour supporter all my working life. New Labour are not all they ought to be but when I think back to the Thatcher era, and I see Cameron smirking his oily smile, I shiver and opt for voting for them again.