Cake/No Cake, The Cafe at the Museum, Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester, 28/03/17.

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cake, Chalk board, Food and Drink, Manchester, Manchester Museum, Oxford Road Manchester, Tea and Cake, The Cafe at the Museum

Photo Archive: “Steak + Kidney Pie”, “The Swan Inn”, Abbotsbury, Weymouth,06/07/15.

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Abbotsbury, Dorset, font, Food and Drink, plus sign, potatoes, Public houses, pubs, Sign Writing, signs, steak and kidney pie, The Swan Inn Abbotsbury, vegetables, Weymouth

Souvenirs: Leaflet, “The Horse With The Red Umbrella” Tea Rooms and Coffee House, 10 High West Street, Dorchester, 29/04/15.

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Dorchester, Dorset, Food and Drink, High West Street Dorchester, leaflet, Loyalty Theatre, Souvenirs, tea., Ted, The Horse With The Red Umbrella

https://www.facebook.com/TheHorseWithTheRedUmbrella. 

I only know three facts about “The Horse With The Red Umbrella” Tea Rooms and Coffee House and only one of them is mentioned in this souvenir.

Firstly: This spot on the High Street was once occupied by the Loyalty Theatre, between 1828 and 1843, before becoming a glass and china shop and then “The Horse With The Red Umbrella” in 1970 [named after the last play to be performed at the Loyalty Theatre, allegedly].

Secondly: I was made so welcome on my first visit “The Horse With The Red Umbrella” when I went in there for my elevenses I went back there for tea [or dinner as some people prefer to call it] on the same day!

Thirdly: My travelling companion, Mrs. W, never gets the name of the restaurant correct! It is usually the Umbrella that slips her mind and it is often replaced by another wet weather item, like wellies or galoshes! Not that that is problem, because we always remember The Horse.

“Frying Fish & Chips”, The Chipperies, 15 South Street, Wareham, 08/07/15.

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Dorset, Fish and Chips, Food and Drink, frying, light, signs, South Street Wareham, The Chipperies, Wareham

2 for 1, “Stop The Bus” Cafe-Bar, Baldwin Street, Bristol, 04/08/15.

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2 for 1, Baldwin Street Bristol, Bristol, burger, chalk, Chalk board, Food and Drink, Stop The Bus, Stop The Bus Bristol

That looks like a tasty burger… http://www.startthebus.tv/

“…Smoked Sprats & More”, Cove Fish. Main Road, West Lulworth, 09/10/15.

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bass, Chalk board, coloured chalk, Cove Fish, Cove Fish West Lulworth, crab, Dorset, fish, fishmongers, Food and Drink, Kippers, lobster, Lulworth, mackeral, samphire, scallops, sea trout, signs, smoked sprats, West Lulworth

Souvenirs: Flyer and Receipt from Bea’s Vintage Tea Rooms, Bath, 28/04/15.

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Assembly Rooms, Assembly Rooms Bath, bath, Bea's Vintage Tea Rooms, cream tea, dippy eggs, flyer, Food and Drink, Saville Row Bath, soft boiled eggs, Souvenirs, tea., Vintage

My sister and I sat at the very table featured on this leaflet for Bea’s Vintage Rea Rooms; my sister was the cream tea and I was the boiled egg on the receipt [we had a difference of opinion regarding the time of day, as we arrived between breakfast and elevenses]. I sat where the lady on the left of the photograph is sitting and from there I could see the end of Saville Row, a glimpse of Bennett Street and the corner of the famous Georgian Assembly Rooms; you can see all the fashionable comings and goings.

I can’t say I’ve seen soft boiled eggs on the menu anywhere else I have called in at for tea and I really enjoyed it, so if you have walked up Saville Row and you feel like you are in desperate need of a dippy egg and tea in a vintage china cup call in at Bea’s.  

Mind Blowing Food, College Green, Bristol, 27/04/15.

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advertising, Bristol, broccoli, College Green Bristol, Cooking, explosion, fish, Food and Drink, Food Connections, Food Connections 2015, glasses, graphic design, spectacles, tomatoes

Featured on a banner publicising the Bristol Food Connections food festival, which starts today!  

Photo Archive: Teapot, Fortnum and Masons, Picadilly, London, 2013.

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Food and Drink, Fortnum and Masons, London, Picadilly, tea., teapot

Scones, Bennett’s Cafe and Bistro, 30-32 High Petergate, York. 24/03/15.

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Bennett's Cafe and Bistro York, Chalk board, clotted cream, Food and Drink, High Petergate York, jam, scones, York