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The sadness at the closure of the New Piccadilly continues with people mourning it’s loss.
Greg Ogarrio over at Rapiers Are Go ! has paid me the kind compliment of reposting my comments on The Girl In The Cafe’s last visit to see Lorenzo and has also used some pictures from my Flickr stream.
Oddly, while Christopher Howse, a Telegraph UK Correspondent mourns the loss of this place :
Telegraph Blogs : UK : Christopher Howse : September 2007
“Suddenly I find that cafés are rare. Poor people can’t eat out any more. Coffee shops sell a cup of coffee alone for £1.50. McDonald’s is expensive and disgusting and charmless”
the travel section in The Telegraph is still telling people to visit the place in their London travel guide …
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I passed it yesterday and it is gone, complete gone, there is no trace left of the Cafe, it is as if it has never been there.
Posted by: Ingrid | September 29, 2007 11:11 AM
That's amazing Ingrid - was it ever there ?
I saw some of the pictures on Flickr from the "New Piccadilly Memories" pool and the place looked so sad. I hear it's been boarded over which is probably better than empty windows or even worse seeing the Eats sign there but turned off ...
Posted by: Mark | October 2, 2007 7:13 AM