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