Fancy a cuppa? We’re in the company of photographer Peter Marshall, who took these photographs of cafes in London between 1980 and 1990. There’s Leslie’s cafe and Cafe Des Chiens on the Isle of Dogs, Lorraine’s Cafe in Walthamstow and Len’s snack bar on Wapping High Street, a single-storey portacabin with a “Games and Viewing Lounge Upstairs”.
“Ain’t no airs nor graces ere,” says the owner of Paul’s Cafe, aka The Cockney Hideout, in Stratford. You can order any type of coffee so long as it’s the one type of “coffee” they do.
Come as you are…
Pauls Cafe, Stratford Marsh, Stratford, Newham London – 1990
Cafe on Deptford High St, Deptford, Lewisham, London, 1988
The Alcove Cafe, Finchley Rd, Camden, London – 1988
Gees Cafe, Landsdowne Drive, Hackney, 1985
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Portslade Rd : Wandsworth Rd, Clapham, 1981
The George Cafe, George Lane, Catford, Lewisham, London – 1990
Oasis Cafeteria, Bidder St, West Ham, Newham,, London -1983
Corner Cafe, Phoenix Rd / Midland Rd, Camden, London – 1980
Servewell Cafe, West Lane,Bermondsey, 1988
New Oxford Cafe, Brookmill Rd, Deptford, Lewisham, London, 1988
Grange Cafe, Grange Rd, Bermondsey, Southwark, 1988
Phoenix Cafe, Chalton St, Somers Town, Camden, London 1987
Leslie’s Cafe, Manchester Rd, Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets, 1984
Ideal Cafe, Albany Rd area, Camberwell, Southwark, London, 1985
Lorraine’s Cafe, High St, Walthamstow, Waltham Forest, 1989
Lorraine’s Cafe, High St, Walthamstow, Waltham Forest, 1989
Victory Cafe, Holywell St, Shoreditch, Hackney, 1986
Cafe, Deptford High St, Deptford, Lewisham, 1988
Snack Bar, 9 Cheshire St, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets. 1983
Corner Cafe, Phoenix Rd:Midland Rd and gas holders, Camden, 1980
Cafe on Marshgate Lane, Stratford Marsh, Newham, 1982
Mickie’s, Cafe, Coulgate St, Brockley, Lewisham, London – 1990
Cafe on Cranbrook Rd, Ilford, Redbridge, 1992
Lion Cafe, Essex Rd, Islington 86
Cafe, Nine Elms Lane, Nine Elms, Wandsworth. 1982
Joe Edwards Snack Bar, Queen Elizabeth St, Bermondsey, Southwark
Joe’s Cafe, Old Kent Rd, Peckham, Southwark, 1985
Café on North Woolwich Rd, Silvertown, Newham – 1983
Victory Cafe, Hackney Rd, Hackney, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets 8
Raymond’s Cafe, Back Church Lane, Whitechapel, Tower Hamletsh Lane, 1986
Closed shop, Westferry Rd, Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets, 1984
Farina’s Cafe, Poplar High St, Tower Hamlets, London – 1988
Cafe, West Green Rd, Seven Sisters, Haringey, 1989
Cafe on White Hart Lane, Tottenham, Haringey, London, 1991
Lens snack bar, Wapping High St, Wapping, Tower Hamlets, 1984
Joe Edwards Snack Bar, Shad Thames, Queen Elizabeth St, Bermondsey, Southwark – 1986
Bingles Snack Bar, Blackall St, Shoreditch, Hackney, London – 1987
Luna Bar on Worship St, Shoreditch, Hackney, 1986
Blackwall Tunnel approach, Bromley by Bow, Tower Hamlets, London -1988
Stoke Newington High St, Stoke Newington, Hackney – London 1989
Stoke Newington Rd, Shacklewell, Hackney, 1989 ( cafe?)
Cockney Hideout (Paul’s Cafe), Marshgate Lane, Stratford Marsh, Newham, London – 1990
Via: Peter Marshall.
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