Minster In Thanet, The Corner House Cafe c.1960
Photo ref: M86050
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The aptly-named Corner House Café was a confectioner's in 1948. Later, in 1960, a café was added to the business. It became the meeting place for most Minster teenagers, serving only coffee and sweets. It stood on the corner of Station Road and St Mildred's Road, known by older villagers as Vicarage Lane.

Memories of Minster-in-Thanet, the Corner House Cafe c1960

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The road in the picture, St Mildred's, is where I grew up, opposite the "rec". As a young lad growing up, Minster offered all sorts of adventures; the marshes, the river Stour, Watchester Lane, the woods, fishing, catching newts & tadpoles in the local dykes and the annual flower show, is that still going? Playing in the woods around the vicarage and evading the vicar, the reverend Wagstaff! Mum ...see more
My parents bought the Corner House in 1963 and lived there until they retired in 1975. I lived there from 1963 till I got married in the church opposite in1967. My dad ran the sweet shop at the front and my mum ran the cafe and tea rooms. My bedroom was above the shop at the front of the building in the photo.