The Tudor Cafe

I too have fond memories of the Tudor Cafe in 1965-7. We used to go there for toasted tea cakes before going to ballet classes at Alfreda's School of Dance behind the clock tower. I remember Toomers, Camp Hopson and Dexter Robinson's (where we bought our school uniforms). We emigrated to New Zealand in 1968 but Newbury has always been very dear to me and I often visit on my trips back to the UK.

I was also a regular at the Tudor Cafe in the early sixties. Usually it was on Saturdays when the market was on. Sometimes, on Thursdays too when I believe it was the agricultural market. My grandfather TN Foster had an oil distribution company based near the railway station and he would be in town on Saturdays to meet with local farmers , many of whom were his customers.
Jam doughnuts were my favourites and it was a special treat to have these at the Tudor. I also remember Toomers and Camp Hopsons. My mother would take me there at the end of the summer holidays and say "I'd like a school blazer for this young man" (very embarrassing). Another shop I remember, in market square, was Beynons with its wooden floors - the most fascinating thing for me was how the cash for purchases was put into a little tube and was 'whizzed' up to the accounts department and would then reappear with the customers change (at least that's how I remember it).
I also am a resident in NZ now Ruth Wilson, living in Sandspit, just north of Warkworth.