Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 12th April, 2012)

Oh my........that's different from when I lived over there in the 1950's and 60's.

Nice one John. Would be interesting to compare the price list now with that when the cafe first opened. Price of tea and coffee is extortionate these days.

Nice looking cafe I wonder if they will be selling traditional nice home cooked food are will it be baguettes,cappuccino, crisp and ice cream

Don't take the kids there, you will need to take out a mortgage to pay for the ice cream..
Why do these places have to charge extravagant prices for ice cream???

Just after the war it was thrupence a cup. Sunday afternoon it was packed with young folk,a regular haunt for picking up birds.Then change venue to Wigan lane Sunday evening. No pictures or telly not much money. My it was great. Of course with enough energy to wipe off the national dept.

Nice photo John. If it was good for picking up birds, I bet Ernest never went!! ;)

The pavilion is great. Shame about the food and prices. Sandwich on a white toasty loaf no thank you!! Mesnes perk is the place to be!!

Does look nice though, it looked tired the last time I went before it was closed down.

This pic makes the cafe look like the flight deck of The Starship Enterprise! When you are actually in it, although it isn't as ornately Victorian as it was, the cafe hasn't actually changed all that much, and we will soon be able to sit upstairs, as people could when I was a child. I agree about the prices, though.

Good one Janice. How did you guess that I`m a bachelor !!

Judging by these comments,you can see that times change at a different rate to people's attitudes!Nice photo John, spent many happy Sundays there in my ice blue jeans!

The price of coffee, tea & ice cream in cafes today is ridiculous, it's all about money, money & creaming off of everyone's hard earned money. Nice renovations & no doubt the council will have thrown in a couple dozen of those creepy dome-shaped CCTV cameras on the ceiling to watch over everyone having a cup of tea, you can't go anywhere in a public place without seeing them - and so many in some places - & as an excuse of crime prevention. Forget the business, what about people's right to privacy?

Thankyou John for the Pavilion picture....been dying to see if they had altered it a lot.It is 1950 (!) since i was in here on a sunday afternoon and ,to me they havnt changed it one bit .Don`t remember the "upstair" seating though.To me, the only change is the prices you talk about.they will price themselves out sooner or later.

Last went in there C1967, looks a lot brighter than then.

Remember it in the 40s full of yanks ,used to collect pop bottles to make a few pence to buy a ice cream and a bottle of pop, good times.Often wonder if they all made it back to the States.