Coffee Bar Trend 1957, The Archivist Presents, ,285

I have had my first vaccination and am going to leave my flat next week The only excitement available to me will be buying a takeaway coffee from a local cafe. This wondrous prospect made me wonder when coffee became such a thing here in the UK. Here s a fascinating sequence of unedited vox pops and pieces to the camera about the new coffee bar trend in the late 1950s and my other favourite thing pubs. Report on rise in Coffee Bars and decline in use of pubs by teenagers. GV Coffee Bar next to Alliance Building Society on the Strand GV Trafalgar Sq. interior the Grapes Public House, in Shepherds Market. Interview with Landlady on the effect the Coffee Bar and television are having on licence trade. Interview with Coffee Bar Owner Mr Napier. Bearded man. Strums guitar and sings. Mute Interview. Paintings on wall of Coffee Bar. Girls young men seated in Coffee Bar. Bearded man. Reporter is American (Don Gordon ). You can license this footage for commercial use through AP Archive the story