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

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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.  

A Pot of Yorkshire Tea and Crumpets, “Just Grand! Vintage Tearooms”, The Grand Arcade, Leeds, 03/01/15.

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Grand.

If you’re in the habit, as I am, of turning up at the box office of The Grand Theatre and Opera House in Leeds to collect your ticket far too early, why not pass the time in The Grand Arcade, at the “Just Grand! Vintage Tearoom“. I’ve been there for tea twice now, before the Saturday matinee and it seems very popular; so much so I’ve had to sit outside in Arcade on both occasions!

Vintage Bus, Gandhi Way, The Museum Quarter, Hull, 29/11/14.

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Outside the Streetlife Museum of Transport.

This delightful vintage bus was ferrying visitors from Hull’s Paragon Interchange to the Streetlife Museum of Transport on Saturday. I didn’t take advantage of the lift to the Victorian Christmas event, taking place in the Museum Quarter, because (as regular readers will know) I like to stroll around Hull when ever possible.

Leaving the Paragon Interchange.

Later in the day I spotted the bus again leaving the Paragon Interchange, the combined centre of operations for the city’s bus and rail services.

At the traffic lights.

The pedestrian crossing linking the Paragon Interchange to the St. Stephen’s Shopping Centre is a regular trap for departing buses and I just happened to be at the pedestrian crossing when the bus was leaving (a perfect instance of being in the right place at the right time).

Knitted Tie Portrait.

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For at least the last five years I have favoured the knitted tie above all other styles, although I can’t recall exactly when I purchased my first, but I think I might have discovered it in a vintage shop in the Grand Arcade, Leeds. The trend doesn’t seen to have caught on however, because I’ve never met anyone else wearing one; not that I consider myself a trend setter! Hence my surprise at finding this portrait of a proud knitted tie wearer.

The photographers name and the address of his studio is printed on the back, “F. Scrimshaw, 46 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds”. The Leeds Museum and Galleries website informs me that F. Scrimshaw appears in the city’s trade directories between 1906 and 1914 at the afore mentioned address and they have a photograph of his as part of their on-line archive and the Leodis “photographic archive of Leeds” has a photograph of “Francis” Scrimshaw’s studio at 46 Woodhouse lane in the mid-1960’s.

Purchased: Haworth, May 2014.

Other photographs from my collection can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/121480122@N04/sets/72157643085991143/

On The Fence.

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I’m loving this chap’s tailoring, flat cap and the rural idyll studio background; complete with rustic fence. The back of the photograph is blank, but I guess he is a Yorkshireman (as all the other photographs in the box I found it in had connects to Hull, Scarborough and Sheffield). Perhaps I should get myself some skinny trousers…