Cosy Corner Cafe
My grandparents (Mr and Mrs Riches) owned the cosy corner cafe on the Brighton Road and we lived at 93 Brighton Road. I've been told it is now a Costa Coffee or something like that. The last time I went there is was a Happy Eater and one of the waitresses remembered my Mum and Aunt (Girlie). I too remember going to the boat swings and cafe but didn't remember where they were so it was good to find out. I remember the patients from the hospital walking past our house on Sunday afternoons. My sister and I used to sit on our wall and wait for them to come past and talk to them. Mrs Violet Porter (Auntie Vi) who owned Porters on the parade was a friend of my grandparents and we often went to tea on Sundays.
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Hi Diane, I was surprised to find you on here. You are my cousin and I remember the house well, although I don't remember the Cosy Corner Cottage. My mum (your aunt Joy) was a nurse at Netherne Mental Hospital. It was while she was working there that she met my father who was on leave from the Navy and was helping his parents, my grandparents Mr and Mrs Riches in the Cafe. I can remember being taken to some swing boats, were they at the cafe? When my parents married, they lived in a little cottage somewhere on Coulsdon Downs.
Comment from Annette Cousins on Friday, 5th November 2010.