The Decline of the Traditional Cafe

 

trendy coffee bars & US chains have helped towards the gradual decline of the English
Cafe culture..............London's "greasy spoon" cafes are disappearing at the rate of one a month
while the number of branded coffeeshops like Starbucks have trebled in the last 5 years.

Discarded frying pan beside Pudding Mill River near Bow

London Fields
Tufnell Park
Kennington
Dagenham
Leamouth
Catford

Elephant & Castle
Shoreditch
Holborn
Holborn
Aldgate                                                           
Limehouse
Limehouse
Limehouse
Stoke Newington
 
 Queens Park
Stratford
West Croydon
Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street

Dagenham
Courtesy of Ian Pennington
Tottenham
Camden Town
Marylebone
Marylebone
Victoria
Forest Hill