I remember "the laughing cat" around 1959/60 when it was a coffee bar, I was a patient at the nearby hospital when on occasion I would pay it a visit with a nurse I was friendly with on her afternoon off where we would hang around and play the jukebox, it was good to get away from the hospital confines for a while. Mick Higham

Far left in the foreground, partially shows the sign of "The Laughing Cat" café on Normandy Street....This was my mother's café from approximately 1952 - 1957, back then she was known as Eileen Mumford :)