Places   (Help with places, streets and buildings in Wigan.)

Hello again Kenee...I have the book in front of me and the bread-and-butter details are used as a typical menu in ALL New Brighton cafes in the fifties and sixties. The article on cafes begins with the memories of a lady called Joyce Corkish who served the last meal in the café that she owned in the resort, which was called Brice's. It only closed in 1992. It goes on to say: "There was more than enough business to go around for the likes of Lawton's Café, Duffy's Café, The Sheffield, Paddy's Snack Bar, Billy's Fish-and-Chip Eat-in-or -Out and Maxims. The menus then were almost always the same....FISH, CHIPS AND PEAS, STEAK AND KIDNEY PIE AND CHIPS, BREAD AND BUTTER CUT CORNER TO CORNER, POTS OF TEA". Brice's, apparently, had checked cotton tablecloths and plastic red roses on the tables, and at one time had photos on the walls of stage artistes that had appeared at The Floral Pavilion but they were all ruined on the day the Orange Drink machine exploded! Hope you found that of interest, Kenee! x.