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Horn & Hardart Automat, New York City, USAHorn & Hardart Automat, 57th Street and 6th Avenue, New York City, USA, one of a large chain of cafes and restaurants serving over half a million people per day. Date: circa 1930
Lebanon - ZahleThe Wadi (the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley) at Zahle, Lebanon. The Beqaa Valley wine region. Date: circa 1920s
Roscrea, County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s
Busy street scene at Spitalfields, East End of LondonA busy street scene at Spitalfields in the East End of London. The location is the junction of Commercial Street and Brushfield Street. The building at the right is Spitalfields Market
Coffee plant, Coffea arabica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Kirchner from Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher medicinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse
Seapoint Ballroom and Restaurant, Salthill, Galway, IrelandSeapoint Ballroom and Restaurant, Salthill, Galway, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s
Photo of The Dolly SistersBlack and white photograph of popular revue stars the Dolly Sisters in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 19th December 1925
WW2 Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe informing suppliersWW2 Home Front Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe Colette of Swallow Street, London sending information on a printed card to inform suppliers that (likely due to Bomb damage)
Montmartre / RestaurantChez la Mere Catherine a notable cafe on the place du Tertre, founded in 1793 and still going strong a hundred years later
Garcon De Cafe 1850A French garcon de cafe, or cafe waiter. Date: 1850
Black and White Milk BarA Black and White Milk Bar sporting a monochrome livery and purveying milkshakes and ice creams in various flavours including bootlegger and ovaltine
RHYL 1950SThe seafront at Rhyl, north Wales, showing the sun glistening on the water of the boating lake on a fine day
Augustus John / Cafe RoyalAUGUSTUS EDWIN JOHN The artist and friends at the Cafe Royal in London
Blue Tiles, Avenida Arriaga, Funchal, MadeiraA picture on blue tiles outside the former Ritz Cafe, in the Avenida Arriaga in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. This type of traditional design, on blue and white tin-glazed ceramic tiles
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) French singer in her dressing room at Alexandra Palace before taking part in a BBC cabaret show called Cafe Continental
The Girl who ordered a glass of milk at the Cafe RoyalIllustration by H. M. Bateman showing a blushing young woman regretting her decision to order a glass of milk in Londons fashionable Cafe Royal because of the laughter
New York, New York. Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street where coffee and soft drinks are sold. The coffee machine cost one thousand dollars. Date 1942 Aug.?
Paris Cafe Ext. 1928Customers enjoying themselves reading newpapers and drinking glasses of red wine outside a typical Paris Cafe
Italian Roadside CafeA group of men chat in the shade of a tree outside an Italian roadside cafe
The Minster Cafe, 9 Great Minster Street, Winchester, Hampshire Date: circa 1910s
The Cafe Gondree - the first house to be liberated on D Day, June 1944. Normandy, France. The cafe sits beside the Pegasus Bridge on the Caen Canal Date: 1992
Soho, London - 42 Great Windmill Street W1 - Nosh Bar delicatessen and hot salt beef bar, photographed at night. 1973
Claude Monet (1840-1926). Bathers at La Grenouillere (1869)Claude Monet (1840-1926). French painter founder of French impressionist painting. Bathers at La Grenouillere (1869). Oil on Canvas. National Gallery. Londres. England. UK
Harrys Bar, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South AmericaHarrys Bar, interior with customers, Avenida 25 de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. Date: circa 1910s
Montreux Grand Prix 1934 - Painting by Andrew McGeachyThe Montreux Grand Prix of 1934, held on 3rd June and won by Carlo Felice Trossi in an Alfa Romeo (car number 6 - shown here in the lead). Date: 1934
Cafe De ParisA fun and glamorous New Years Eve party at the elegant Cafe de Paris in London with the gaiety at its height
Bystander Riviera number cover 1935Smart society enjoying the sunshine and amusements of the French Riviera in 1935. Front cover of The Bystander magazines special Riviera number
Scene at a petrol station, with an attendant filling up a car
Thessaloniki, Greece - Turkish Coffee Shop Waiter. Date: circa 1910s
Newark-On-TrentThe tall shaft of the old Market Cross, Lombard Street, Newark, Nottinghamshire, where you can have a tea or enjoy Hovis at the Beaumont Cafe or stay at the Robin Hood Hotel
Abc Cafe London / 1900The Aerated Bread Company Cafe (ABC) Ludgate Hill, London. The tea rooms opened in the 1860s, serving hot drinks and snacks. The stair sign reads Ladies Coffee Room Downstairs
Ye Green Parrot Tea Rooms, St Peters Green, Bedford Date: 1916
Morning Call Coffee Stand, New Orleans, USAMorning Call Coffee Stand, French Market, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Claimed to be the citys most famous coffee drinking place. Date: circa 1940
Formosa Oolong Tea Rooms advertisement, 1916Advertisement for the Formosa Oolong Tea Rooms - the most charming place in London for luncheons, teas and dinners. Illustration shows a lady having tea with an officer in uniform while a waitress in
Lickey Hills, Worcs - Cafe Royal and Kinver Edge View HotelLickey Hills, Worcestershire - Cafe Royal and Kinver Edge View Hotel. Date: circa 1910s
Clock Cafe and view of beach, Scarborough, YorkshireThe South Cliff Gardens Cafe (known today as the Clock Cafe), with a view of the beach below, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire
North Bay and Cafe, Scarborough, North Yorkshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J
Rue des Ouleds-Naדּand Moorish cafes, BiskraThe busy street of Ouleds-Naדּ, Biskra, lined with several Moorish cafes. Date: circa 1910s
Paris, France - Boulevard des Italiens. Date: 1850
Bronnums Cafe - Copenhagen, Denmark. Date: 1908
Gerardmer, Vosges, France - on the Col de la Schlucht mountain pass in the Vosges Mountains. Date: circa 1907
Riviera Interlude by Clark FayA relaxed scene showing smart holidaymakers enjoying a drink at an open air cafe underneath striped parasols somewhere on the Cote d Azur, France during the 1930s. Date: 1935
Cool CustomersCool customers at a street cafe in trendy St. Tropez, France, totally ignoring an uncool street ecapologist! Date: late 1960s
Baby Grand Cafe, Harlem, New York City, America
French Cafe and Garage - ParisScene of local people standing outside a Paris Cafe, positioned next to a garage offering cars for hire. The smart cafe waiter stands alongside a rather lovely (and rather huge) dog
Turkish Musicians - SalonicaA fun card depicting a group of three Turkish Musicians in Salonica
Patrons of the Cafe RoyalSketches by H. H. Harris of various well-known artists, writers and celebrities of the 1930s who were regular patrons of the Cafe Royal in Regent Street, London
Advertisement for Ye Olde Jacobean cafe, DerbyAdvertisement for Ye Olde Jacobean, The Wardwick, Derbys Supreme Cafe, where you need not be ashamed to meet your friends, and where you can hear the famous electric gramophone
Lady Outside Cafe 1894Lady sits drinking at a table outside a French cafe Date: 1894
Cafe Josty Scene 1890CAFE JOSTY A gentleman pours cream into his coffee, while a couple are engrossed in their conversation. At the next table a man reads a paper Date: 1890
Chess in Paris CafeA game of chess at the Cafe de la Regence, Paris, with several on-lookers
Outside Cafe TortoniThe fashionable Cafe Tortoni, in the rue Taitbout, where carriages stop for ladies to consume ice cream, while others enjoy theirs on the terrace
Bath Buns ShopFortts Original Bath Buns shop, also famous for its Oliver Biscuits and incorporating the Green St. Cafe, Bath, Somerset
Desmoulins, Palais RoyalIn the gardens of the Palais Royal, Camille Desmoulins climbs a table at the Cafe Foi, and - brandishing a pair of pistols - calls the Sunday afternoon crowd to action
People at tables in the Place du Tertre, Paris, with the church of Sacre Coeur in the background. Date: 1960s
Place Massena, Nice, France Date: circa 1910s
Verona, Italy - Piazza Erbe and Palazzo Maffei. Date: 1914
Street scene with trams and shops, Kobe, Japan. Date: circa 1910s
French Happy Families - BistroFrench Happy Families - La Famille Lavinasse, Father, Bistro. early 20th century
Shopfront of Emeries lemonade shop and cafe, Paris, circa 1800.. Handcolored lithograph from Hector-Martin Lefuels Parisian Stores of the First Empire, Paris, Albert Morance, 1925
Oxford Hotel, Denver, Colorado, USAView of the Oxford Hotel and new annex, Welcome Arch and Union Depot, Denver, Colorado, USA. Date: circa 1910s
Port-na-Craig Tearooms Pitlochry, ScotlandPort-na-Craig Tearooms, Ferry Road, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Still (wonderfully!) still open as a Tea House although they have also diversified into (gasp...) Modern European Cuisine!
Crowded Cafe De LA PaixThe Cafe de la Paix, Paris - Paris is crowded with foreign troops and visitors in the aftermath of the wars end
Cartoon, Waitress, WW1Cartoon, Waitress, showing a pretty young woman in a white apron serving a beer to a French soldier in uniform. Date: 1915
Refreshment Rooms opposite Victoria StationSmall Refreshment Rooms (J.P. Restaurants Ltd.) opposite Victoria Station, Pimlico, London. Freshly made tea was their speciality!
Social / Lapin Agile 1912People in a bohemian cafe, Le Lapin Agile, Paris
Stoney Middleton 1950SView of Stoney Middleton, with its Lovers Leap cafe, a beautiful village in the Derbyshire Peak District, where cottages shelter beneath overhanging cliffs
Wordsworth / HawksheadA corner of the Square, and tiny Methodist chapel, which has been operative since 1862, at Hawkshead, Cumbria, the village where William Wordsworth lived as a boy
2 Women Whisper in CafeWomen in Paris cafe; afraid to make themselves conspicious, propose to look as if they are waiting for someone
Dreamland Cafe 1952A summers evening in the outdoor cafe at Dreamland Amusement Park, Margate
Drinking outside a cafeDrinking outside in a French cafe
Old man reading newspaper in cafe, Le Monastier-sur-GazeilleOld man concentrates on reading a newspaper in cafe, Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille, France Date: 1988
Shepherd Market, Mayfair, LondonShepherds Market, Mayfair, London. G Ruggeri Restaurant (now Le Dondin Blanc). A Street girl (prostitute) standing on the corner of Trebeck Street and Shepherd Market Date: 1950s
Woman in lilac dress, era of Marie AntoinetteWoman in lilac dress strolling in the Palais Royal, era of Marie Antoinette. Petite Maitresse en robe lilas tendre garnie de gaze a la promenade au Palais Royal
Coffee tree, Coffea arabica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1810
Riders in St. MortizA scene in the Swiss ski resort of St. Moritz in 1927 showing riders in smart riding habits, stopping by a cafÚáÀith their horses
Golden Gate Cafe Restaurant, Funchal, MadeiraStreet scene with Golden Gate Cafe Restaurant, Funchal, Madeira. Date: circa 1920
Flomaries Cafe for dainty teas and light luncheons, East Grinstead High Street, Sussex, with a war memorial on the left. circa 1930s
Zagreb, Croatia - Ulica Ivana Tkalcica (Tkalciceva Street) Date: circa 1900s
Butlins - AyrButlins Ayr - Lounge Cafe and Indoor Heated Pool
A man sits in a back street tea shop in Cairo, Egypt and smokes a hookah, or hubble bubble. His white clothes are spotted with red stains
Kingsbridge, Devon - Ryeford Garage and Anchor Hotel opposite Stears Cafe and Bakery Date: circa 1930s
A British Waitress in a restaurant or teahouseA British Waitress working in a restaurant or teahouse - delivering a tray of hot drinks. Perhaps her slightly downcast expression is in part due to the fact that gratuities to serving staff were
